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Back pages of Bronze/Bronce, Volume 1, Issues 1 & 2, 1968.

Bronze was a Chicano newspaper published out of Oakland and San Jose, California by a coalition of Chicano college students.

Jstor

#print #1960s #1968 #Chicano #california #design

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Happy Holidays my friends! Just reflecting on the fact that I started this blog just over ten years ago as a high school sophomore, and I just finished my first semester of law school last week. Some of you have been here that whole time, or else a long ass time, and I appreciate it :-) Heaping blessings, learning & knowledge on all of your 2022s

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"When Lenape scouts first sighted The Half Moon with Hudson at its helm, they noted that the captain wore red, a color that signified vitality and warfare, joy and anger. According to [John] Heckewelder, they marveled, 'He, surely, must be the great Mannitto, but why should he have a white skin?'

Here Heckewelder, writing two centuries later, was projecting his contemporary racial sensibility onto their first impressions. It seems unlikely (as the historian Evan Haefeli has argued) that to Lenape eyes the strangers would have appeared 'white,' the color of wampum shells and flint. The Dutch, when they controlled the New Netherlands, did not identify themselves as 'white' but as 'Christians.' And the Lenape’s own early accounts fixate on the peculiar hairiness of the Europeans rather than their skin color—to a society of men who did not grow beards, the new arrivals seemed more akin to otters or bears. Or else the Lenape commented on their eyes, for where they lived, only wolves had blue or green irises.

According to records from the early eighteenth century, natives and new arrivals in the English colonies rarely remarked on skin color or identified one another in such terms. Yet within a few decades, the division of peoples into a trinity of white, black, and red had become common. Barbados, England’s first plantation colony, was the first to witness the transition from 'Christian' to 'white,' as the colonists sought to separate themselves from their slaves, the islanders, and the small but growing caste of people with mixed ancestry. Like a wind, whiteness travelled north and into the Carolinas, as colonialists from Barbados emigrated there. It took a decade to reach the northeast.

Around the early 1720s, indigenous people in the South began to appropriate the label 'red.' Long before it became a slur, it was a term of empowerment, evoking ardor and prowess in war. When Carl Linnaeus, in 1740, classified the peoples of the New World as 'red' in his Systema Naturae, red skin became enshrined as a scientific category, though it is no more grounded in biology than in the air.

The Lenape, for their part, called the sunburned strangers Shuwanakuw. The modern Delaware-English dictionary defines this as 'white person.' Yet Shuwanakuw derives not from the word for white, waapii, but from shuwanpuy, meaning 'ocean, sea, or saltwater.' White people were those who had emerged from the sea."

The Paris Review: "White Gods."

#race #indigenous #lenape #colonialism #quote #18th century #17th century

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Cora Latz and Etta Perkins were a lesbian couple who met in 1972 and were together until Perkins’ death in 1998. In 1973, they held a commitment ceremony; in 1998, they privately renewed their vows with the staff who cared for them at the Jewish Home for the Aged.

GLBT Historical Society

#LGBT #happy pride 🌈 #photo #1970s #1990s #lesbian

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Blue (1993), Derek Jarman

[LGBTQ History Month] Blue (1993) was British filmmaker Derek Jarman’s final feature-length film before his death in 1994 of an AIDS-related illness. Blue consists of 75 minutes of only a single shot of blue - “International Klein Blue,” a hue Jarman first encountered in 1974 and which inspired him to make a film. Jarman and three of his favorite actors, including Tilda Swinton, narrate in prose and surrealistic poetry - on fate and history and the universe between clinical, vivid descriptions of living with and dying of AIDS. 

Jarman’s narration alternates between gloomy and thoughtful, whispered abstract observations, and sharp, matter-of-fact, explanatory, even mildly perturbed. All this over a still shot of blue, which in its bare minimalism expresses all: The suffocating personal and social stigma of Jarman’s illness. An existentialism both individual and communal, reflecting his own impending death and the lives and deaths of his gay and lesbian friends. “The virus rages fierce,” mourns Jarman, ��“I have no friends now who are not dead or dying.” “My heart’s memory turns to you.” He lists, presumably, dead friends, his voice dreamy and fading away into blue void: “David. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul.” 

Jarman was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1986 and toward the end of his life began to lose his eyesight. What sight was left “became filtered through a dense blue veil.” In Blue, he muses on color, and illness in colors - yellow for infection, yellow for evil, yellow for bile, yellow for jaundice; green for hospital pyjamas, green for Cytomegalovirus. Blue for blood, sky, for “infinite possibility,” for bliss, for a “bearded reaper” - for Death. 

“In the pandemonium of image I present you with the universal Blue Blue an open door to soul An infinite possibility Becoming tangible”

Full Movie on YouTube

#This is going around so I replaced the movie link. I mean this one will prob also be taken down but whatever lol. #Love u my lgbtq family

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Jack Delano Posters advertising the sideshow at the Rutland Fair, Rutland, Vermont, 1941.

Library of Congress

#I want to see Charlie Chaplin chicken so bad. #photo #1940s #Vermont #carnival

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Ernest Marquez Collection Mothers and children, Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1915.

The Huntington

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Arthur Rothstein Migrant laborers and children living on a Farm Security Administration labor camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942. 

Library of Congress

#New Deal #photo #labor #1930s #1940s #Texas

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Unknown photographer Photographic portrait of Chinese American man, Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1902.

The Huntington

#handsome fella #1900s #photo #Los Angeles #California #Asian American

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Russell Lee Fruit farmer and his son. Placer County, California, 1940.

Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration

#photo #Russell Lee #1940s #stopp.. they both knew they were serving #California #Asian American

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Mona Saudi Covers for Palestinian Affairs magazine, 1976; PLO Post Card Series - Tenth Anniversary of the Intilaqa, 1975 [Curator's note: This poster/card marks the tenth anniversary of the launching of the Palestinian revolution in 1965]; Palestinian Land Day, 1977; Covers for Palestinian Affairs magazine, 1976.

Palestine Poster Project

#art #Palestine #Mona Saudi #Jordan #1970s #print

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Land Day commemorations have long been replete with symbolism of Palestinians’ cultural heritage and relationships with the land and landscapes. One such symbol is the anemone coronaria or poppy anemone. Known in Arabic as shuqa’iq annaa’mun, among Palestinians it is often considered a symbol and memorial to martyrs due to its blood-red color; the flower and its stem contains all four colors of the Palestinian flag.

Poppy anemones make an incongruous appearance in JNF v. USCPR, when two individual plaintiffs specifically name Shokeda Forest as a space they can no longer visit due to fire damage. Only six kilometers from the edge of Gaza, Shokeda Forest is known for its springtime displays of shuqa’iq annaa’mun, interspersed amongst non-native eucalyptus, pine, and casuarina (swamp oak) trees planted by the JNF as an anti-desertification effort starting in 1957.

Abed Abed El Hameed “Land Day - 1985″

Palestine Poster Project

#print #Palestine #1980s #design

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In 1915 Upton Sinclair, then at the pinnacle of his fame, had come to live in Pasadena. Learning of the disturbances at San Pedro, Mr. Sinclair announced that he intended to speak at Liberty Hill… On the night of the meeting, Liberty Hill was black with the massed figures of the strikers. Mounting a platform illuminated by a lantern, Mr. Sinclair proceeded to read Article One of the Constitution of the United States and was promptly arrested. Hunter Kimbrough then mounted the platform and started to read the Declaration of Independence, and was promptly arrested. Prince Hopkins then stepped on the platform and stated, ‘We have not come here to incite violence,’ and was promptly arrested. Hugh Hardyman then followed Hopkins and cheerfully announced, ‘This is a most delightful climate,’ and was promptly arrested.

On the 1923 San Pedro Los Angeles maritime strike, “The Politics of Utopia,” Southern California Country: An Island on the Land, Carey McWilliams.

#quote #1920s #IWW #Upton Sinclair #California #Los Angeles #labor

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Happy birthday Diva 🎂🎈

Jon Landau Original liner notes from Aretha Franklin’s Lady Soul, 1968. 

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David Gahr “Aretha Franklin,” Atlantic Studios, 1968.

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“A FEMALE LONGSHOREMAN —She Dresses Like a Man, Works Hard and Is a Pugilist”

Los Angeles Herald, No. 163, March 12, 1899.

#print #19th century #1899 #Los Angeles #love her. gf #march 12

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[Dicineus] urged them to contemplate the twelve signs and the courses of the planets passing through them, and the whole of astronomy. He told them how the disc of the moon gains increase or suffers loss, and showed them how much the fiery globe of the sun exceeds in size our earthly planet. He explained the names of the three hundred and forty-six stars and told through what signs in the arching vault of the heavens they glide swiftly from their rising to their setting. Think, I pray you, what pleasure it was for these brave men, when for a little space they had leisure from warfare, to be instructed in the teachings of philosophy! You might have seen one scanning the position of the heavens and another investigating the nature of plants and bushes. Here stood one who studied the waxing and waning of the moon, while still another regarded the labors of the sun and observed how those bodies which were hastening to go toward the east are whirled around and borne back to the west by the rotation of the heavens. When they had learned the reason, they were at rest.

— The Origin and Deeds of the Getae [Goths], Jordanes, c. 551 AD.

#quote #anitquity #Jordanes #Getica #6th century #astronomy

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Our ancestors were of the opinion that the circle of the whole world was surrounded by the girdle of Ocean on three sides. Its three parts they called Asia, Europe and Africa. Concerning this threefold division of the earth's extent there are almost innumerable writers... But the impassable farther bounds of Ocean not only has no one attempted to describe, but no man has been allowed to reach; for by reason of obstructing seaweed and the failing of the winds it is plainly inaccessible and is unknown to any save to Him who made it. But the nearer border of this sea, which we call the circle of the world, surrounds its coasts like a wreath.

The Origin and Deeds of the Getae [Goths], Jordanes, c. 551 AD.

#quote #I love this. first of all..obstructing seaweed #Circle of the world #geography #Jordanes #Byzantium #antiquity #medieval #Getica #Goths #6th century