"We
don't exist, nobody sees us!" This declaration by a French youth living in a
banlieue (suburb or outskirts) of Paris in 1992 captures the reality of
an urban outcast. The Visual Arts—art, photography and film—can address the
invisibility of those who see themselves or are perceived negatively as
"foreign" or otherwise marginalized. Revealing the plight of the outcast,
"the other" as they are generally called, can be beneficial to society and a
legitimate purpose of academic work.
However,
the youth framed in the French film, La Haine, (The Hate), may have
achieved acclaim, but has poverty, crime, and racism been removed from the
French banlieue since 1992? Moreover, visualizing "the other" may also
corrupt reality. The negative results of romanticizing, stereotyping, or
caricaturizing the outsider can be seen in studies of depictions of the
American native, the "Oriental," the Pacific Islander and others in
art, photography, and film. Thomas McEvilley in Art & Otherness: Crisis
in Cultural Identity (New York: McPherson and Company, 1995) discusses the
need for more non-European art and more portrayals of diverse cultures by
diverse artists to leaven the dialog between cultures. The following
digital resources are meant to give a sampling of otherness via the visual
arts.
These
resources have been organized following the geographical divisions favored by
Advanced Placement World History guidelines. This article is only a
tentative first part of a larger projected study to be published in the future
in World History Connected as "The Other in World
History." North America and Europe are currently better represented here
than the other regions, an imbalance that will be redressed in the final more
comprehensive article.
East
and Southeast /Japan
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/the-victorian-vision-of-china-and-japan/
"The
Victorian Vision of China and Japan," V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum
UK), nd. Article with photographs of how the British profiled the myth of the
exotic in China and Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endv3PVpXFg
Ainu:
First People of Japan, YouTube video, (7 minutes 43 seconds) found in
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Native Peoples' site. Note links to other
native peoples and their culture and arts.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/IEW/ainu.html
http://gegallas.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/the-hero-as-other/
http://www.gallatin.nyu.edu/content/dam/gallatin/documents/syllabi/2011/SP/K20.1412.pdf
G.E.
Gallas (screenwriter and author) essay, "The Hero as Other," is based
on his courses at Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
where he explored comparing 19th century Japanese literature and film to
European works on Heroes as Other. Gallas cites 2 classes at Gallatin which
inspired him. These are:
"Yellow
Peril: Documentation and Understanding Xenophobia." This link is to Jack
(John Kuo Wei) Tchen's spring 2011 syllabus for that course. The other was
Ritty Lukose's syllabus and readings, Fall 2011, for "Globalization:
Promises and Discontents," available Gallatin School of Individualized
Study at http://www.gallatin.nyu.edu/content/dam/gallatin/documents/syllabi/2011/FA/CORE-GG2014.pdf.
http://www.theendofart.asia/index.php/imaginary_paradise/
The end of art blogsite, "Imagining Paradise," posted March 31, 2011
examines the "Exotism of indigenous cultures through images, art, photography."
Note tabs as to more articles and examples on right side of page.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp
East Asian
History Sourcebook, Fordham University, @Paul Halsall July 1998, last updated
March 13, 2007. Note links to images of Chinese art on this page.
http://www.newasiabooks.org/publication/japanese-cinema-and-otherness-nationalism-multiculturalism-and-problem-japaneseness
Mika Ko,
"Japanese Cinema and Otherness: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and the
Problem of Japaneseness," Routledge 2001. Mika Ko attempts to describe
modern Japanese film from the 1980's-2000 and how it describes/features
"Others," ie., ethnic minorities, foreigners, and Okinawans.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/linglong/index.html
Columbia
University digital collections, "Ling Long Women's Magazine 1931-37,"
Images of Chinese women during changing times in China or images of the Chinese
elite and their fashions leaving the lower class Chinese women as other.
http://www.chinese-art.com/Contemporary/volume3issue1/review2.htm
Huang
Zhuan, "Issues in the Third world and Approaches to Contemporary
Art," Chinese-art.com, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2000. Huang Zhuan discusses
contemporary third world art and otherness from a Chinese perspective.
http://www.chinacurrents.com/Vol9_No2_2010/cc_wu.htm
Shu-chin
Wu, "Visualizing China in Transformation: The Underground and Independent
Films of Jia Zhangke," China Currents, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2010. From
China Research Center website. Many of Jia Zhangke films portray anguish of
marginalized peoples caught in China's economic change over time, growing
industrial and urbanization societies.
http://www.lotzdollpages.com/lpasia.html#Otherness
Jean D.
Lotz, "Asian Wood Puppets," lotzdollpages.com @ 1996, last updated
6/13/2001. Note section two, Puppets and "Otherness."
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html
Visualising
Cultures-Image Driven Scholarship MIT website first established in 2002. Focus
on Japan and China and interaction with the West. See images of
"Self" and "Others."
http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks3.html
Christopher
L.C.E. Witcombe, "Art in SE Asia," art history resources, last
updated January 2012. See links to many other regions.
http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/
World Wide
Web Virtual Library: History of Art, sponsored by CHArt, last revised 1/2008.
Note Chinese/Japanese Art History, Art and Archaeology of Africa, Burmese Art,
Indian Traditional Art.
http://www.lotzdollpages.com/lpasia.html#Otherness (some nudity)
See
Converging Cultures and 28 minute video which visualizes examples of syncretism
and cultures meeting via trade or exploration and how they move from otherness
to blending and sharing cultures. Mother site: http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/
South Asia/India
http://reorientations.uchicago.edu/biblio.html Jesse Knutson (South
Asian Languages and Civilizations blog, February 26, 2005, University of
Chicago) review of the following:
Brajadulal N. Chattapodhyaya, "Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources
and the Muslims (Eighth to Fourteenth Century)," Manohar, Dehli, 1998.
Chattopadhyaya's short but rich monograph is a detailed study of terminologies,
modes, and strategies in Sanskrit literary and epigraphic sources for referring
to the various Muslim newcomers, invaders and rulers—Arab, Persian, Turkish,
etc..
http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/cat_ifilms.html
The South
Asian website list of films many dealing with the Other and marginalized
peoples.
http://motherjones.com/media/2012/03/sonia-faleiro-mumbai-dance-bar
"Where
women have everything as long as they can dance," Jeremy Lybarger
interview with Sonia Faleiro, author of "Beautiful Thing: Inside
Bombay's Secret Dance Clubs," Mother Jones, March 14, 2012.
http://danhuttfieldrecordings.com/files/DanHutt2011.pdf
Dan Hutt, "Outsiders, Outcasts, and Outlaws: Post Modernism and Rock Music
as Countercultural Forces in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet."
A Thesis for MA Degree, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences,
Kansas State University, 2011. (84 pp. pdf)
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules
"Children
and Youth in History," Teaching Modules, @ 2008 Roy Rosenzweig Center for
History and New Media at George Mason University and University of
Missouri-Kansas City, World History Matters. Note also Case Studies: http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson5/lesson5.php?s=0
"Sati,"
Teaching Modules @2004-2006 Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at
George Mason University, World History Matters. Hindu Indian women as Other.
Case Studies on Gender: http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/casestudies.php
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson10/lesson10.php?s=0
"Western
Views of Chinese Women," Women in World History modules, primary sources,
teaching lessons, and resources." Copyright @ 2004-2006 Roy Rosenzweig
Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, World History
Matters.
http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/1/index.html
See
Converging Cultures section of this Annenberg Learner site, Art Through Time: A
Global Vision Central site here: http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/
The first
link, Converging Cultures, could support teaching of the new APA World History
Curriculum Module: Exchanges and Interactions throughout Afro-Eurasia,
especially how cultures interact in positive fashion creating syncretic Art.
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/news-events/news/detail/m/new-book-about-images-of-otherness.html
Asia and
Europe in a Global Context website, University of Heidelberg, review of new
book, "Images of Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Times: Exclusion,
Inclusion, Assimilation," which focuses on literature and the visual arts.
Seen in home site: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/
Pacific/Oceania
http://uisbiblio.edublogs.org/oceania/
"Oceania,"
Urban Indigenous Studies website begun in 2010 which displays literature on
urban indigenous peoples/mobility/issues. This is Oceania section of a massive
site.
http://www.janesoceania.com/oceania_captivity_cannibalism_colonialism_pacific/index.htm
"Oceania:
Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific-Pt. 2,"
janesoceania.com, revised 23, June 2009. This article focuses on how Europeans
portrayed and interpreted the "body" of the Pacific other. In this
following section the author discussed portrayal of Pacific Islanders as
cannibals: http://www.janesoceania.com/oceania_captivity_cannibalism_colonialism_pacific1/index.htm
http://citygallery.org.nz/assets/New-Site/Exhibitions/Deane-Gallery/2011/Greg-Semu/Re-imagining-OceaniaRF.pdf
"Re-Imagining
Oceania," City Gallery New Zealand. 3 pp. pdf summary of Deane Gallery
2011 exhibit of Pacific/Oceania art depicting the Islanders (Maori
specifically) as the Other...an Orientalist motif. See "Oceania: Pacific
Island Art and Culture" New Zealand site for examples. http://www.zeroland.co.nz/art_oceania.html
Scroll
down to bottom of these Oceania art museum links to see links to many world Art
sites.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once_were_warriors/
1994 Film, "Once We Were Warriors." Describes Maori decline in New
Zealand and their being viewed as outcasts.
http://www.wou.edu/~smithr/369%20VISUAL%20ANTHROPOLOGY/Readings/9A1_MacBean_Degrees_Otherness.pdf
James Roy
MacBean, "Degrees of Otherness: A Close Reading of First Contact, Joe
Leahy's Neighbors and Black Harvest," Visual Anthropology Review,
anthrosource 56, Vol. 10, Nov. 2 Fall 1994. The Highland Trilogy on first
contact with Europeans in New Guinea. (see reviews and 9 min. video clip below
in Film section).
http://ucsc.academia.edu/RobWilson/Papers/914178/Doing_Cultural_Studies_InsideAPEC_Literature_Cultural_Identity_and_Global_Local_Dynamics_in_the_American_Pacific_Comparative_Literature_
Rob
Wilson, (University California, Santa Cruz) "Doing Cultural Studies Inside
APEC: Literature, Cultural Identity, and Global/Local Dynamics in the American
Pacific," Academia.edu @ 2012.
http://www.itvs.org/films/storytellers-of-the-pacific
Frank
Blythe, Prod., "Storyteller of the Pacific: Self Determination,"
1996, 240 minutes. Two part series of one hour documentaries on Pacific and
Pacific Rim peoples.
http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/psi/art/Envisioning%20pacific%20islands.htm
Margaret
Jolly, "Envisioning the Pacific Islands: Indigenous, Colonial and
Contempoary Arts," Art History syllabus, 2001. Note especially European visions
of the Pacific Islanders texts, articles and art work, drawings from Cook's
voyages.
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/cathy-hawaii.htm
Catherine
Kerch, "Hawaii: Art and Its People," Incredible @rtDepartment Art
Lessons. Ms. Kerch an art instructor at Holy Family Catholic Academy in
Honolulu, Hawaii developed this 12 week Hawaiian art unit for grades 5th-8th.
http://center.cca.edu/community/visiting/tapa
Center for
Art & Public Life website, "Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture,"
Tongan cloth art exhibit presented by visiting scholar/artist Ping-Ann Addo.
http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/1387/homeland-sacred-visions-and-the-settler-state/
Marcia
Langton, "Homeland: Sacred Visions and the Settle State,"
Artlink.com. Langton says otherness of aboriginal art in the West persists due
to white settler resistance to release their Euro-centric vision of history.
She details Australian aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarray's intimate human
interactions with landscapes.
Latin
America/Caribbean
http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/26/7-8/182.abstract?rss=1
Joao Feres
Jr., (Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio (IUPERJ), abstract,
"Representing Latin America Through Pre-Columbian Art: Political
Correctness and the Semantics of Othering,"
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/mexico.htm
"Art
of Mexico-Latin American Art," incredibleart.org website, copyright The
Incredible Art Department (Princeton On-Line), Ken Rohrer @ 2011. Links
to Mexican and Latin American art over time with many examples of outcasts, the
other, marginalized peoples.
http://www.commarts.uws.edu.au/gmjau/iss1_2008/lehman.html
Kathryn
Lehman, "Argentina worker movement through film,"
commarts.uws.edu.au, 2008.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/trouillot.htm
Review of
Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of
History." Beacon Press, 1995.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/art/art.htm
Haitian
Art, Music, and Dance digital resources found in
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/bell.htm
http://tufts.academia.edu/RominaGreen/Papers/176199/Unearthing_Violeta_Parra_Art_as_Multilayered_Discourse_and_Manifestations_of_Anti-_Neo_Colonialism_Anti-Modernism_Nationalism_and_Otherness
Romina A.
Green (Tufts University), "Unearthing Violetta Parra: Art as Multilayered
Discourse and Manifestations of Anti-(Neo) Colonialism, Anti-Modernism,
Nationalism and Otherness," Academia.edu, nd.. Ms. Green examines Chilean
communist, artist, feminist Violetta Parra's efforts to stand against
colonialism through her art in the mid-20th century.
http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/wko/forthcoming.php
Forthcoming
articles, film, artworks in Duke University's Worlds & Knowledge Otherwise
website, 2008. http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/wko/ Home site of Worlds
& Knowledge Otherwise website, 2007.
http://us.macmillan.com/imagingthecaribbean/PatriciaMohammed
Patricia
Mohammed, "Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation,"
Palgrave Macmillan, May 2010. Dr. Mohammed paints a word and image picture of
Caribbean iconography, historically analyzing visual representations of the
region as perceived by outsider and insider over 500 years. She covers the
entire region, yet focuses on Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados within
colonial and gender encounters. Mohammed peels back the layers of Caribbean
culture unveiling an Asian Other.
http://www.mmg.mpg.de/subsites/subsite-1/editorial-board/patricia-mohammed/
http://repeatingislands.com/2012/03/11/ics-lecture-and-screening-patricia-mohammeds-the-temples-of-the-other-the-south-asian-aesthetic-in-the-caribbean-and-coolie-pink-and-green/
http://www.feministafrica.org/index.php/a-triangular-trade
Patricia
Mohammed, (professor gender studies University of the West Indies-Trinidad)
"A Triangular trade in gender and visuality: the making of a
cross-cultural image base," Feminist Africa, Issue 7, 2007.
Europe
http://books.google.com/books?id=NhGC-LHxvH4C&dq=isbn:0226979229
Froma I. Zeitlin, "Playing the Other: gender and society in classical
Greek Literature," University of Chicago Press, 1996, 474 pp.. Woman as
the Other in Greek society—google book.
http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~bstevens/JewishOther.htm
"Jews in Medieval Christendom," links and articles from 2003 NEH
Summer Institute on "Representations of the 'Other': Jews in Medieval
Christendom," held at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 9
July-13 August, 2003. Director: Irven M. Resnick. Webpage designed by
Barbara Stevenson, Professor of English, Kennesaw State University.
http://documenta-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/11/otherness.html
"Otherness,"
Documenta, Ecclesiastical Images, November, 2011. Jewish and Muslim otherness
in Christian lands by 14th century.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nIAjYg8Vdz8C&source=gbs_similarbooks
John Block
Friedman, "The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought," Syracuse
University Press, 2000. Friedman looks at these "races" as viewed by
medieval European travelers and how the "monster races" interacted
with Western art, literature, and philosophy.
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/news-events/news/detail/m/new-book-about-images-of-otherness.html
Asia and
Europe in a Global Context website, University of Heidelberg, review of new
book, "Images of Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Times: Exclusion,
Inclusion, Assimilation," which focuses on literature and the visual arts.
See home site: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/
http://books.google.com/books?id=oR0xXiiFc5MC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Frank
Felsenstein, "Anti-Semetic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English
Popular Culture, 1660-1830," John Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Felsenstein researches ephemeral literature such as tracts, periodicals,
chapbooks, sermons, etc. along with caricature, paintings to represent
anti-semetism in England. (Google book)
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-02-24-bogdal-en.html
"Europe invents the Gypsies: The dark side of
modernity"..."Social segregation, cultural appropriation: the
six-hundred-year history of the European Roma, as recorded in literature and
art, represents the underside of the European subject's self-invention as agent
of civilizing progress in the world, writes Klaus-Michael Bogdal in Eurozine. Professor of German Literary Science at the University of Bielfeld.His book
Europa erfindet die Zigeuner [Europe invents the Gypsies] is published by
Suhrkamp Verlag (2011). Thanks to David Fahey for posting on H-World.
http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/16_2011/encountering_otherness/Abbattista_Trophying%20Human%20Otherness_in%20Encountering%20Otherness_2011.pdf
Guido
Abbattista, "Trophying Human 'otherness' From Christopher Columbus to
contemporary ethno-ecology (fifteenth-twenty first centuries)." 32 slides.
Found in Guido Abbattista, ed., "Encountering Otherness. Diversities and
Transcultural Experiences in Early Modern European Culture," a series of
essays delivered as papers at final conference of the Miur-Interlink 2006-2008
research project, "EUO-Europe Cultures and the Understanding of Otherness,
copy. Edizioni Universita di Trieste 2011.
http://www.phs.poteau.k12.ok.us/williame/APAH/readings/Caravaggio,%20The%20Artist%20as%20Outlaw,%20Lambert.pdf
"Artist
as Outlaw," excerpted from Gilles Lambert, "Carravagio." Koln:
Taschen, 2000, 6-17, 92-94. Seen in Mr. Ed Williams AP Art website: http://www.phs.poteau.k12.ok.us/williame/
http://www.iwm.at/files/nl-96.pdf
Newsletter of the Institut Fur Die Wissenschaften Vom Menschen, Vienna and of
the Institute For Human Sciences at Boston, University, No. 96, July-December
2007. (In German and English) See especially, p. 22 ff. "Outcasts: The
Roma of Slovakia," photo essay by Julia Denesha and p. 20 ff. "Who Is
A Partner, And Who is An Alien?" Germany and Austria Policy Debates.
http://www.biweekly.pl/article/2094
Jagoda Romanowska, "Us and Them. An Intricate History of Otherness."
A short review of "Us and Them. An Intricate History of
Otherness." International Cultural Centre Gallery, Krakow. Curated
by: Anna Olszewska. 16 March-5 June 2011.
http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/files/2009v8n2art8.pdf
Mukal Saxena (University of Warwick,UK), "Construction &
Deconstruction of Linguistic Otherness: Conflict and Cooperative code-Switching
in (English) bilingual classrooms," English Teaching: Practice &
Critique, September 2009, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.167-187.
http://www.acme-journal.org/vol6/ASi.pdf
Amy Sicilliano, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, "La Haine:
Framing the 'Urban Outcasts,'' @ACME Editorial Collective, 2007. The Hate, La
Haine, (1995) an analysis of the film portraying riots in the French banlieue
outside of Paris.
"We don't exist, nobody sees us," A youth from a
banlieue outside of Paris 1992. (Laperyronnie, 1992; quoted in Wacquant, 1993,
377 (scroll down to see video clip of La Haine and analysis in Film section).
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/modules/module-full.php?code=TV2248
Kingston
University, London, "The Light Programme," curriculum module. Course
is intended to introduce students to light entertainment from it's origins in
pagan carnival into 21st century. Idea that TV is contemporary forum for
"light entertainment" which has always represented race, gender,
ethnicity, the cultural OTHER, and family.
http://www.manu.edu.mk/balkanimage/index_files/rezime_eng.pdf
Balkan
otherness and Balkan stereotypes in Literature. Note on page 34 of this pdf
discussion on Art and Balkan imagery.
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/historyteaching/Projects%5CImage%5CImageIntro_en.asp
"The
Image of the Other in History Teaching," Education and Language-History
Teaching, Counseil de l'Europe website. Multiculturalism in the European
History curriculum.
http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/G.Perring/MA/text/artother.htm
Giles
Perring, "Art and Otherness," University of East London, visual art
and birth of the 'Outsider' Art School including a look at Jimi Hendrix and
Frank Zappa and French surrealists. See Disabled artists: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/G.Perring/MA/text/intro.htm
http://www.rawvision.com/outsiderart/whatisoa.html
"What
is Outsider Art?" Rawvision.com. Description and definitions of Art Brut,
Insane Art and Outsider Art as described by French painter Jean Dubuffet after
WW II.
http://www.phil.muni.cz/plonedata/wkaa/BSE/BSE_2003-29_Scan/BSE_29_12.pdf
Lidia
Kyzlinkova, "Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine: Racial Otherness and Conservative
Englishness," SBORNIK PRACI FILOZOFICKE FAKULTY BRNESKE UNIVERSATA STUDIA
MINORA FACULTATIS PHILOSOPHICAE UNIVERSITATIS BRUNESIS S 9, 2003—BRNO Studies
in Eng 29. British contemporary Psychological crime novels expose the other.
http://www.jtsa.edu/prebuilt/exhib/jewoth/index.shtml
"the Jew as Other: A Century of English Caricatures 1730-1830,"
presented by the Library of JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary) from a 1995
exhibition. Note example/images of English Caricature "drawings"
portraying Jews as the OTHER.
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/otherness/otherness1-5.html
Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota,
http://chgs.umn.edu/histories/otherness/otherness2.html
Center For Holocaust & Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota,
"Visualizing Otherness II: Belgrade's Anti-Masonic Exhibition of
1941-42," Images. Scroll down to Related Links for more on Nazis, Roma and
Sinti (Gypsies) and Native Americans.
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/21/plan-b-a-second-look-at-his-protest-song/
"Plan
b, a second look at his protest song," Independent, 3/21/2012. British
young musician music criticizes treatment of the Other and growing poverty in
England.
http://persephonemagazine.com/2011/02/privilege-and-otherness-art-to-stand-on/
[E]Coco
Papy, "Privilege and Otherness: Art to Stand on," posted Feb. 10,
2011 in Perspectives, see on Persephone Magazine website. Papy defines
privilege in art and gives examples of European artists who depicted the Other
in this short article.
The Centre
for Otherness...
http://www.otherness.dk/journal/
http://www.otherness.dk/
http://www.otherness.dk/vol_2/
http://www.otherness.dk/vol_1/
Europe and Orientalism
Orientalism
has two meanings in our world, perhaps more. One, a 19th century European art
movement that portrays a Romantic view of the Mid-East and East, ie., Pin-up
art for Europeans in the East? The Oriental mystical women are often portrayed
lounging around "ottomans" and bedrooms and look very European. AP
World History's new Curriculum module "Zones of Interaction: Long Distance
Trade and Long-Term Connections Across Afro-Eurasia" inc. a discussion of
the "Other" in it's curriculum.
Orientalism
art would be an example of that theme. Note a feminist POV (Jessica) on
Orientalism and links exhibiting Oriental Art below. Second, Orientalism
refers, also, to a historiographical debate best seen in the Edward Said and
Bernard Lewis exchanges. Dr. Said claimed that only regional, ethnic educators
should teach specific regional histories and culture studies because they have
more of an intuitive "feel" for the region, while the
"Other" may be biased in their approach.
http://www.ricorso.net/tx/ENG312/Teaching/Classroom/Lectures/Lecture05.htm#TOContents
University
of Ulster, "Postcolonial Logic: Binarism and Alterity," (nd) Lectures
explaining the two terms in context of Edward Said's Orientalist argument.
http://divergences.be/spip.php?article1486
Orientalism
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Orientalism.html
Daniel
Sered, "Orientalism," Postcolonial Studies at Emory University
website, Fall 1996.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10anti.html?_r=1
Nineteenth-century artworks often shunned for their stereotypical portrayals of
the Arab World have been gaining a new luster of late. Both the NY Times
(above) and Saudi Aramco magazines
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200902/behind.orientalism.s.veil.htm have recently published
reports on rising interest and auction prices of Orientalist art, driven in
part by Arab art collectors and others who see historical and artistic merit in
the works. http://s3af.com/index.php/news/middle-east-art-news/276-behind-orientalisms-veil-saudi-aramco-world
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/special.htm
Native informers in US search for empire. (Also,
note lower right, Orientalist paintings).
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/_sc.htm
Postcards, etc. and original photo for "Reading Lolita in Teheran"
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/euor/hd_euor.htm
Met Museum
timelines of Art—Orientalism.
http://www.orientalist-art.org.uk/
Orientalist
artists.
http://www.orientalist-art.org.uk/harem.html
Harem
Paintings.
http://www.orientalistart.net/index.html
19th
century European Orientalist artists. "Berber Woman" is beautiful.
Also, note "music" tab....
Not real impressive.
http://www.orientalistart.net/Carlhaagpaintings.html
Victorian
painter, Carl Haag, mid-19th century, first European to paint Dome of the Rock,
etc. Beautiful Middle East art, watercolor.
http://www.orientalistart.net/Page1.html
Other European Orientalist artists, and song "Terra."
http://www.ecognoscente.com/months/september10/30.html
More on Orientalist art.
Africa
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/artbulletin/Art%20Bulletin%20Vol%2075%20No%203%20Blier.pdf
Susan
Preston Blier (Harvard University African and African American Studies),
"Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese. ca.
1492," The Art Bulletin, September 1993, Vol. LXXV, Number 3. pdf. Note
Blier's website http://scholar.harvard.edu/blier/publications/imaging-otherness-ivory-african-portrayals-portuguese-ca-1492 and her bibliography of
African art resources: http://scholar.harvard.edu/blier/links
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/afart.htm
Africa
Philosophy Resources, "Topic: Art, Philosophy and Africa," B. Janz
webpage, nd. Links to African art. See especially, Jean-Marie Dederen,
"Black Artist, White Critic: Ideological Mindscapes of Otherness."
http://africa.si.edu/blogs.html
National
Museum of Africa Art list of blogs found within National Museum of African Art
site:
http://www.ezakwantu.com/Gallery%20Herero%20and%20Namaqua%20Genocide.htm
"The
Herero and Namaqua," Gallery Ezakwautu displaying Central and South
African Tribal Art, last updated 2012. Images of the Herero and Namaqua
genocide in early 20th century perpetrated by German colonizers. Use of
concentration camps may have been a German strategy continued in Hitler's
Germany.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/20/photography.southafrica
Sean
O'Hagan, The Guardian Observer (UK), "Africa as you've never seen
it," July 19, 2008. Article with 10 photographs analyzing and describing
young South African photographer Peter Hugo's unsettling images of Africa's
marginalized peoples.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOUTH_AFRICA_ENDURING_RACISM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-11-11-23-42
Donna
Bryson, "South African photographer pursues hate speech case," The
Essential Global News Network, April 11, 2012. Johannesburg, South African 82
year old photojournalist Alf Kumalo pursues hate speech case. Kumalo
photographed the South African apartheid struggle.
http://www.artthrob.co.za/05mar/reviews/artspace.html
Dineo
Bopape, "Coral Spencer at artSPACE," artthrob on-line journal,
archive: Issue No. 91, March 2005. Bopape reviews Spencer's art exhibit of
African maids addressing the theme of otherness. See images of her paintings on
this site.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0438/is_3_43/ai_n55041005/
Peter
Probst, "Troubled Waters: on Otherness and Ownership," The Regents of
U. of California and Gale, Cengage Learning 2010. Article found on Business
Library (CBS) website. Probst dissects the problem of interpreting art works at
exhibits and art museums using African spirit Mami Wata exhibit asking,
"To whom does the Other belong?" Who has ownership of summarizing and
interpreting art works at exhibits?
http://www.heidisincuba.com/the-sincubator/2011/07/25/in-other-worlds-the-trouble-with-otherness-and-the-rise-of-the-altermodern/
Heidi
Sincuba blogsite, "In other worlds: The trouble with Otherness and the
Rise of the Altermodern," July 25, 2011. A case for more African and
non-western art.
http://www.jacksonfineart.com/Lalla-Essaydi-2824.html
Lalla
Essaydi exhibit "Converging Territories," Jackson Fine Art Gallery.
Essaydi is a Moroccan born NY based visual artist who portrays gender
otherness.
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa207a.htm
Nnamdi
Elleh, "A Continent without Borders: Africa's Influence on African
American Artists," Resource Library, 2/3/2005. This essay was excerpted
with permission of author from 2004 illustrated catalogue for Exhibition
"Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art" at the Michael
Rosenfeld Gallery 1/15-3/6/2004.
http://www.feministafrica.org/index.php/a-triangular-trade
Patricia
Mohammed, (professor gender studies University of the West Indies-Trinidad)
"A Triangular trade in gender and visuality: the making of a
cross-cultural image base."
http://www.north-africa.com/arts-culture/359.html
Colin
Kilkelly, "Colin Watson a Painter who Captures 'the Otherness' of
Morocco," The North African Journal, 4/11/2002. Do you see any alterity in
Mr. Watson's works as
evidenced by this article?
North
America
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text3/indianscolonists.pdf
National Humanities Center, "You Know, we are different Nations and have
different ways." European Americans and Native Americans View Each
Other, 1700-1775. (2009) National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox, Becoming
American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763.
http://erikafranz.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/207/
Erika Theresa Franz, Brush off the dust! History now! blog, "Dehumanizing
now! words and writing the other," 9/8/2010. Ms. Franz discusses
Todorov's, "The Conquest of America, The Question of the Other,"
http://instruct.uwo.ca/anthro/222/index.htm and William Brennan's,
"Dehumanizing the Vulnerable, When Word Games Take Lives."
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/03/30/representation-of-the-primitive/
Lisa Wade, "Representation of the 'Primitive' American Indian,"
Sociological Images website, March 30, 2011. Edward S. Curtis' photographs of
native Americans and how they shaped Images of the Native Other...JP Morgan
paid Curtis $75,000 in 1906 to photography native Americans. These manipulated
photographs shaped American perception of the "Other" (native
American) for years. Link can also be opened here: http://arabstereotypes.org/blog/201105/13-388
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/imagesnatives.html
The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity: Native Americans in Film from Media Resource
Center, Moffitt Library, UC Berkely. Note Bibliography of Native Film and
Listing of Western Films.
http://www.abina.org/
(Graphic
History) Trevor Getz and Liz Clarke, "Abina," Slave women's court
testimony turned into a meta-narrative.
http://www.abina.org/resources/sample_syllabus/ Getz's syllabus
utilizing "Abina" in Anthropology class.
http://www.truth-out.org/if-women-arent-getting-hired-media-making-jobs-does-affect-what-we-see/1331653341
(Graphic/Cartoon
Journalism) Anne Elizabeth Moore and graphic artist Mickey Zacchilli, "The
Gender of Media Creators Affects What We See," Truthout, 3/13/2012.
This article uses evidence from 2011 gender counts (inc. in article) in
literary publishing to portray US media as still a man's world effecting how
women are displayed via creators of media.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/101102/chinatown.shtml
Anthony
Lee, "Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco,"
originally published in U. of California Press, 2001, seen in College Street
Journal, Mount Holyoke, Oct. 2002. Fears, needs, social concerns of Chinese
community in San Francisco, 1840-1950.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/sesame-street-accurately-portray-latino-culture_n_1396502.html
Laura
Steiner, "'Sesame Street' Aims to Accurately Portray Latino Culture,"
posted 4/2/2012 seen in Huffington Post, Cultura Latinovoices, April 7, 2012.
Latinos have been portrayed unrealistically and Sesame Street is making an
effort to change that. Note Latino muppet created in 1993.
http://inclusionparadox.com/pop-culture-helps-normalize-the-other-in-society/
Andres T. Tapia, "Pop Culture helps Normalize the Other in Society,"
The Inclusion Paradox website, posted September 23, 2010. Pop culture icons
Archie and Veronica, Dora the Explorer introduce diversity and the Other.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/11/legacy-lonesome-death-bob-dylan-hattie-carroll
Or, Pop
culture helps see how the Other suffer in society.
Bob Dylan
song as to death of Hattie Carroll, a 51 year old maid killed by the cane of a
diamond ring wearing Southern man..
http://social.zune.net/bingplayer/?v=1.0#mid=CFE70900-0100-11DB-89CA-0019B92A3933&title=The%20Lonesome%20Death%20Of%20Hattie%20Carroll&artist=Bob%20Dylan&album=The%20Times%20They%20
Are%20A-Changin'&artistid=33100000-0600-11DB-89CA-0019B92A3933&albumid=BFE70900-0100-11DB-89CA0019B92A3933&dto=1&preview=0&explicit=0&lyrics=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fmusic%2Flyrics%2Fdetail%3Fq%3DBob%2520Dylan%2520The%2520Lonesome%2520Death%2520Of%2520Hattie%2520Carroll%26songID%3DCFE70900-0100-11DB-89CA-0019B92A3933%26lyricsID%3D%26albumID%3DBFE70900-0100-11DB-89CA-0019B92A3933%26artistID%3D33100000-0600-11DB-89CA-0019B92A3933%26pc%3DLRFD%26form%3DDTPMUZ
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/article1221529.ece
Stephanie
Hayes, "Hoodies Have a Complicated Fashion Story," Tampa Bay Times,
March 25, 2012. Florida shooting of young man wearing a hoodie links
fashion to otherness.
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ac06/a_goldbard7.html
Arlene
Goldbard, "Varieties of Otherness (of the niqab or Hasidic gear or baggy
pants)," Motion Magazine, October 22, 2006. Goldbard begins her article
with quote from then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, as to British migrants
wearing the veil or niqab, "It is a mark of separation."
http://now.msn.com/now/0329-daily-texan-cartoonist.aspx
"College
Fires Cartoonist over Trayvon 'colored boy' drawing," msn.com, 3/29/2012.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/rep-bobby-rush-wears-hoodie-on-house-floor-for-trayvon-martin/2012/03/28/gIQAlf8WgS_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics#
Rosalind
S. Helderman, "Rep. Bobby Rush chided for wearing hoodie on House floor
for Trayvon Martin," Washington Post, 3/28/2012. Not only chided, but
removed from House floor for dress code violation.
http://www.history.org/history/clothing/intro/clothing.cfm
Linda
Baumgarten, "Looking at 18th century American Clothing," Colonial
Williamsburg website, nd. See art/painting examples and fact that clothing of
the other, the masses, has not survived. Most Clothing collections contain
garments worn by the elites.
http://www.fashion-era.com/sociology_semiotics.htm
Pauline
Weston Thomas, "Theories of Fashion Costumes and Fashion History,"
Fashion-Era.com, @2001-2011. Short article on clothes as status. Thomas
cites Thorstein Veblen, "The Theory of the Leisure Class," 1899 and
purpose of upper class dress as a status symbol that people wearing these types
of clothes do NOT do manual labor.http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/VEBLEN/veblenhp.html See chapter 7 on that
discussion by Veblen.
http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/msthnr/mooreinoutahr.pdf
Insiders and Outsiders in the American History narrative...Jstor
One way to
keep insiders inside is to ignore or caricaturize their history and
culture...in America and England WASPs ignored much of Irish history and
slandered the Irish as drunks comparative to the Native Americans. That is why
St. Patrick's Day revelry is frustrating for some Irish. (see example below)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/11319651-452/im-irish-but-spare-me-the-grotesque-st-pats-blarney.html
I'm Irish, but spare the grotesque St. Pat's blarney...
http://wiki.daviddarts.com/images/f/f5/CocoFusco_TheOtherHistory.pdf
Coco
Fusco, "The Other History of Intercultural Performance," first
appeared in The Drama Review, 1994, 21 pp. pdf. Performance ART.
http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc00g/301/CFusco-OtherHistory-TDR.pdf
Fusco
explains her Performance Art exhibit, "Guatinau," or "Couple in
a Cage," which was 3 days in a cage with her male colleague. Guatinau was
a satirical exhibit (performance art) mimicing European and North American
practice of exhibiting Indigenous people from Africa, Asia and Americas in
zoos, parks, museums, freak shows, circuses and taverns in late 19th century.
The idea of performing the Idealizing of an Other for white audiences. See 2005
example in Augsburg, Germany. http://www.afro-netizen.com/2005/06/african_village.html
http://www.goldenstatesofgrace.com/exhibit.html
Rick
Nahmias, "Golden State of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited—A
Photodocumentary," Photo Exhibit showing spirituality and religious ritual
of Jewish addicts, Cham Muslims, Transgender, dispensated nuns, and prison
inmate Buddhist converts in California.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-nahmias/golden-states-of-grace-pr_b_731600.html Rick Nahmias article in
Huffington Post, Religion blog, 9/20/2010 discussing Golden State of Grace.
http://motherjones.com/photoessays/2012/03/portraits-addiction-bronx/mannyquiles-arnade
Chris
Arnade (Photographer) and Nicole Pasulka (text author), "Portraits of
Addiction," Mother Jones, 3/15/2012. Manhatten photographer pictures
(slide show) picture and explain the stories of dug addicts, sex workers, and
the homeless in Bronx, New York.
http://www.dusablemuseum.org/events/details/bringing-the-outsiders-in-the-world-of-intuitive-art
"Bringing the Outsider in the world of intuitive art" exhibit,
Dusable Art Museum.
http://artblog.outsider-artworld.com/article2.pdf
Four page pdf defining Outsider Art. artblog, artworld.com.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/36250941/Heavy-Metal-and-Gender
Jorge
Pilay, "Heavy Metal and Gender: All the Gender Issues Aside," paper
for Theory of Knowledge course, 8/22/2010. Women as Other in Heavy Metal music.
http://horroreffect.blogspot.com/2009/03/revenge-of-other-exploitation-cinema-of.html
"The
Revenge of the Other: Exploitation Cinema of the Seventies," Horror Effect
blog, 3/3/2009. Amidst 1970's social turmoil—race, family breakup, etc., change
over time is seen in Horror cinema characters, themes.
http://theterribleplace.blogspot.com/2008/10/cloverfield-essay.html
"Cloverfield
Essay," The Terrible Place blogspot, Media Studies News and Views, October
1, 2008. A review of "Cloverfield," a terror film exhibiting a
monster as the Other (as many horror films do, ie., Jaws and King Kong) in New
York City during and immediately after 9/11.
Middle
East
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/art_middle_east.html
Middle
East Art websites, zeroland.co.nz.
http://www.h-net.org/lists/
Note many
art discussion groups, at least two on Islam and Arab Art from H-Net,
Humanities and social sciences out of Michigan State University.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Contemporary-art-in-the-Middle-East/19352
Ali
Khadra, "Contemporary Art in the Middle East: Orientalism is not the
issue—we have art of our own," The Art Newspaper, Opinion, Issue 206,
October 2009. Khadra responds to Anna Somers Cock, "Are we colonialising Middle
Eastern art?" The Art Newspaper, July, August, http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Are-we-colonialising-Middle-Eastern-art?/18604 who claims Middle
Eastern contemporary art is being "produced" to satisfy Western
customers much like Orientalist art. Khadra says no, contemporary Middle East
artists have too much history and Mid-East art styles to fall into that genre.
http://waccglobal.org/en/20072-mediating-the-middle-east/449-Hollywoods-reel-Arab-women.html
Hollywood's Reel Arab Women....a history of Hollywood's perception of Arab
women.
http://www.arabstereotypes.org/
Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab stereotypes site....Arab as Other. This
site traces the history of these stereotypes, provides tools to identify and
understand them, and asks viewers to record their reactions and responses to
what they have learned in the site's blog. It also offers perspectives on other
segments of American society that are subject to stereotypes. Guest curated by
Dr. Evelyn Alsultany of U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
http://arabstereotypes.org/blog
Blog site featuring Arab stereotypes, video, photographs, etc.
Hollywood stereotyping...Note first two posts from Matthew Jaber Stiffler on
Islamaphobia and Reclaiming Identity.
http://arabstereotypes.org/blog/othering
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/movies/film-review-one-arab-scholar-s-otherness-and-contradictions-in-otherness.html
NY Times
review of Edward Said's last interview on Orientalism and otherness, 8/4/2004.
http://www.okcir.com/Articles%20V%20Special/JarrodShanahan.pdf
Jarrod
Shanahan (U. of Mass.-Boston), "Fanon and the Iraqi Other: Unmasking the
Illusions of Colonialism," Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology
of Self Knowledge, Summer 2007, 273-284. Shanahan relates the images and
symbols (propaganda as art) discussed by Franz Fanon in his critiques on
colonialism in Iraq.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62289309/A-Postcolonial-Reading-of-Some-of-Saul-Bellow's-Literary-Works
Ohood Foad
Anbar, approved Thesis paper 2009, "A Post Colonial Reading of Some of
Saul Bellow's Literary Works," Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Saud
University for Deanship of Higher Studies, Department of English. Ohood Foad
Anbar takes two Saul Bellow books, "Henderson on the Rain King"
(1959) and "To Jerusalem and Back" (1976) and "expose(s) the
colonialist elements in them which excludes the Arabs and Africans from it's
scope." Her paper claims Bellow's two works are "a demeaning
representation of the 'Other.'"
http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich170508.htm
Soraya
Sepahpour-Ulrich, "Terror Most Imperial," Countercurrents.org, 17
May, 2008. Subtle tools of Imperialism include value laden language to define
Arabs and Muslims, such as "terrorist" and "Islamofascism,"
as other.
http://www.ted.com/talks/shirin_neshat_art_in_exile.html
"Shirin
Neshat: Art in Exile," Ted.com video, December 2010. Shirin Neshat speaks
in this video of ben an Iranian women artist living in exile.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/04/art-middle-east
C.M./Dubai,
"An Avenue of Free Expression," The Economist, Prospero-Books, arts
and culture, April 3, 2012. Article on Dubai Art Fair and resurgence of women's
art with otherness theme.
http://www.ahmadyarts.com/assets/exhibits/tarjama/Tarjama_Catalog.pdf
"Contemporary
Art From the Middle East, Central Asia and it's Diasporas,"
tarjama/translation, ArteEast 84 pp. pdf filled with articles on contemporary
Mid-East art to background for Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Park, NY
May 10-September 27, 2009 and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell U.,
Ithaca, NY exhibits, copyright @ 2009 ArteEast. Articles discuss
effectiveness of building cultural bridges with art and concerns by Middle East
artists of being Good, moderate, or "Bad" Muslims.
http://www.whitman.edu/content/global-studies/initiative/otherness
Whitman
College, "Relating to Cultural Otherness." Every 2008 Whitman College
student was assigned Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" to read to
understand and attempt to relate to an Iranian young women portrayed in this
graphic novel. See reviews on Satrapi's "Persepolis," and
illustrations in this piece of cultural graphic art: http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/iran/satrapim.htm
Film
http://archive.org/details/dw_griffith_birth_of_a_nation
"Birth
of a Nation," (1915) David Wark Griffith's masterpiece, possibly first
full length American movie with a plot, which may have painted a stereotypical
rendering of the Black Other in America's psyche. Few remember his attempt to
"correct" the racist images with "Intolerance" (1916) or
that President Woodrow Wilson, a university professor before politics, was
given a special screening of the film calling "Birth of a Nation" true history.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_birth.html
http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html
AMC
filmsite review of "Birth of a Nation," edited and written by Tim
Dirks. Dirks explained how Birth of a Nation was first shown with the title,
"The Clansman," based on former North Carolina Baptist minister
Reverend Thomas Dixon's 1905 melodrama play, "The Clansman." The
Clansman was the 2nd in a trilogy which included first, "The Leopard's
Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden 1865-1900," The Clansman,"
and "The Traitor."
http://www.videosurf.com/video/kourtrajme-hommage-au-film-la-haine-8922697
French
film, "La Haine," The Hate, (1995) 5 minute video clip.
http://www.helium.com/items/404050-movie-analysis-the-representation-of-the-banlieue-in-la-haine
Adele
Chapman, "Movie Analysis: The representation of the banlieue in La
Haine," Helium, June 18, 2007.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/08/04/la_haine_2004_review.shtml
8/4/2004
BBC review of La Haine.
http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/1/index.html
See
Converging Cultures and 28 minute video that could add to our teaching of the
new AP World History Curriculum Module 2011-2012: Exchanges and
Interactions throughout Afro-Eurasia, especially the last unit authored by Bill
Strickland on British and Chinese meeting the "Other."
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Bill+Cosby+on+Prejudice+YouTube&qpvt=Bill+Cosby+on+Prejudice+YouTube&FORM=VDRE
3 part
"Bill Cosby on Prejudice" Youtube video—24 minute total....Mr.
Cosby's classic "white face" and cigar performance of
"stereotyping" the Other..."What am I? I'm a Bigot!"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html
"Class
Divided," PBS, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot a 3rd grade
Iowa teacher prepares a lesson on discrimination. 1985 Award Winning
documentary and one of PBS's most requested programs in 5 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad_eRF0LkBQ
"San
Diego Hate Crimes," 4 min. 56 sec. Youtube video, KPBS news Evening
Edition uploaded March 28, 2012 by CAIRtv. KPBS interview with Oscar Garcia
District Attorney for San Diego District Attorney's Hate Crime Unit and Edgar
Hopida, CAIR-San Diego region.
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC36folder/IsaacJulien.html
"The
Films of Isaac Julian: Look Back and Talk Black," by Jose Arroyo from Jump
Cut, no. 36, May 1991, pp. 98-107, 10, copyright "Jump Cat: A Review of
Contempoary Media," 1991, 2006. British Black Film, 1970's-1980's written
in the language of Blacks in England. Example, "Territories," 25
minutes, 1984...
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/570442/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVnHdG9cnI
"Alia
Syed-Experimental Filmmaker," 6 minute vodcast in which Syed explains her
influences. Alia Syed's films explore language and culture interactions, love
in English/London urban settings from POV of Pakistani/Bengladeshi female
perspectives.
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/02/01/29613.html
Jigar film
or urdu word for "friend" or "lover." Absolutearts.com,
Arts News, 2/1/2002.
http://www.ted.com/talks/shirin_neshat_art_in_exile.html
"Shirin
Neshat: Art in Exile," Ted.com video, December 2010. Shirin Neshat talks
about being an Iranian woman artist living in exile.
http://wiki.daviddarts.com/images/f/f5/CocoFusco_TheOtherHistory.pdf
Coco
Fusco, "The Other History of Intercultural Performance," first
appeared in The Drama Review, 1994, 21 pp. pdf.
http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc00g/301/CFusco-OtherHistory-TDR.pdf
Fusco
explains her Performance Art exhibit, "Guatinau," which was 3 days in
a cage with her male colleague. Guatinau was a satirical exhibit (performance
art) mimicing European and North American practice of exhibiting Indigenous
people from Africa, Asia and Americas in zoos, parks, museums, freak shows, circuses
and taverns in late 19th century. The idea of performing the Idealizing of an
Other for white audiences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX2Lk2tdcw {1 min. 54 sec. clip}.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-899627923732856130#
"Herero
to Hitler," 58 minute documentary film on Germany's first concentration
camp strategy as to the Herero and Namaqua people of Namibia in sw Africa.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-21/entertainment/ca-25325_1_longest-hatred
Howard
Rosenberg review of the 1993 film, "The Longest Hatred," a 2000 year
history of anti-semetism in three parts (150 minutes), "The Hatred Will
Not Die....," Los Angeles Times, April 21, 1993.
http://videos.mitrasites.com/ali-mazrui.html
Various
Ali Al'Amin Mazrui videos. Mazrui's "The Reinvention of Africa: Edward
Said, V.Y. Mudimbe and Beyond" is a classic review of the Other and
historiography of Africa.
http://itvs.org/educators/collections/womens-empowerment/lesson-plans/green-belt-movement
"The
Green Belt Movement: Evaluation, Citizen Action and Environmental Change
Strategies," including 9 minute film module "Taking Root: Kenya and
Wangari Maathai," Women's Empowerment Collection, David Maduli-writer, @
2012 Independent Television Services, Inc. (see 8 Lessons on Women's
Empowerment-this is lesson 2).
http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/area/cuvl/african_studies/video.html
"African
Studies Film/Video," Columbia University Library. Listing/Bibliography of
African film found in Columbia University libraryweb.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanAmBib.html
"Bibliography
of African Americans in Film," UC Berkeley Library.
http://jewishworldreview.com/video/co-occupation.php3
Comedian
Samantha Bee on the Daily Show, 5 minute video, "Co-Occupation," Food
Co-op in Brooklyn faces political boycotts against Israeli food seen in Jewish
World Review, March 27, 2012. Daily show clip, March 27, 2012:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-27-2012/co-occupation
Boycotting
the political Other, Daily Show, March 27, 2012.
http://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself.html
TEDGlobal
2011, "Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself," Filmed
July 2011, Posted July 2011. British actress Thandie Newton,
white
father and Zimbabwean mother, discusses her childhood and education as
"other."
http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,114042.html
Patricia
Mohammed short film "Coolie Pink and Green," Newsday Review,
1/12/2010. Mohammed analyzes the South Asian influence and otherness in the
Caribbean.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21123741
Patricia
Mohammed, "The Temples of the Other: The South Asian Aesthetic in the
Caribbean," 43:56 minute video recording, March 15, 2012,
Institute
of Caribbean Studies. Introduction in Spanish, Dr. Mohammed's presentation in
English.
http://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/november2009/patriciamohammed.asp
Patricia
Mohammed, "A Different Imagination," 6 pt. Documentary.
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(de)/ZIF/FG/2008Pluribus/fellows/raab_nava.pdf
Josef
Raab, "Latinos and Otherness: The Films of Gregory Nava," 2008, 19
pp. pdf. Raab discusses Latino and Chicano film in US with works cited page at
end.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/LatinoBib.html
"Chicano/Latinos
in the Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library,"
1996, last updated 12/8/2011.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once_were_warriors/
1994 Film, "Once We Were Warriors." Describes Maori decline in New
Zealand and their being viewed as outcasts, ie., the Other.
http://www.itvs.org/films/storytellers-of-the-pacific
Frank
Blythe, Prod., "Storyteller of the Pacific: Self Determination,"
1996, 240 minutes. Two part series of one hour documentaries on Pacific and
Pacific Rim peoples.
http://www.asiapacificfilms.com/films/show/300-act-of-war-the-overthrow-of-the-hawaiian-nation-
Asia
Pacific Films website with many films from the Pacific rim countries. Note
films on otherness, cultural identities all having 3-4 minute trailers. This
link being an example of colonizing the Hawaiian peoples.
http://movies.rangu.com/2007/07/lagaan-hindi-movie-online-download-free.html
"Lagaan,"
(2001) Bollywood blockbuster set in 1893 India amidst drought and high British
(raj) taxes. The film's characters depict otherness within the Indian rural
setting and arrogant attitude of the British soldiers....a story filmed around
a cricket match.
http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/cat_ifilms.html
The South
Asian website bibliography of South Asian film many dealing with otherness and
marginalized peoples.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE3D71F3DF937A35757C0A964958260
NY Times
review of "Black Harvest," 1992 film displaying modern culture's
effects on Gangia, a aboriginal tribe in Papua New Guinea. "Black
Harvest" is Pt. 3 of The Highlands Trilogy following "Joe Leahy's
Neighbors," 1989, Pt. 2 of Trilogy by same writers/directors, Robin
Anderson and Bob Connolly.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE6D8173CF932A35757C0A96F948260
Richard
Bernstein review, "Joe Leahy's Neighbors" (1989) NY Times, published
April 1, 1989. Joe Leahy is a mixed race wealthy plantation owner in New
Guinea. Film depicts relationship between New Guinea tribe and rich man and is
Pt. 2 of The Highlands Trilogy.
http://www.der.org/films/first-contact.html
Pt. 1 of
The Highland's Trilogy, "First Contact," color, 54 minutes, 1983. See
9 minute video clip in this link.
http://www.ioffer.com/i/horse-thief-tian-zhuangzhuang-s-film-of-tibet-1986-106642915
"Horse
Thief," Tian Zhuangzhuang's film of Tibet, 1986. Story of Tibetan man
banished from tribe for stealing horses to help his family.
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/chinas_lost_girls
National
Geographic video, "China's Lost Girls," 2005, Video, 43
minutes. National Geographic host Lisa Ling looks at China's one child policy
and female babies as the other.
https://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/BR_otherness.htm
Rubina
Ramji review of S. Brent Plate and David Jasper, ed., "Imag(in)ing
Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together," Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1999. Seven films with Otherness theme highlighted in book which Ramji
summarizes in this review.
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/undergraduate/modules/en3130#learning-and-teaching
Dr. Sarah
Graham, School of English, Leicester, UK, "Modern Monsters: The Other in
Contemporary American Texts," (and film), course module and bibliography
of sources—books and films, 2011-2012.
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