S. Ani Mukherji
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318474
- eISBN:
- 9781781380437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318474.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter discusses three black cultural workers who spent time in Moscow during the 1930s: The journalist Homer Smith worked as the Moscow correspondent for black newspapers, disseminating a ...
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This chapter discusses three black cultural workers who spent time in Moscow during the 1930s: The journalist Homer Smith worked as the Moscow correspondent for black newspapers, disseminating a global vision of blackness and the location of Moscow in this black world. Afro-Chinese Trinidadian Sylvia Chen forged a new type of anticolonial dance that fused elements of Chinese folk dance, modern choreography, and popular jazz steps. Wayland Rudd made a career as an actor. The focus on artists who made Moscow their home for extended periods calls attention to the everyday activism of imagining and inhabiting the city that sustained it as a site of black internationalism, though the chapter also outlines the challenges they faced as foreigners and as Blacks.Less
This chapter discusses three black cultural workers who spent time in Moscow during the 1930s: The journalist Homer Smith worked as the Moscow correspondent for black newspapers, disseminating a global vision of blackness and the location of Moscow in this black world. Afro-Chinese Trinidadian Sylvia Chen forged a new type of anticolonial dance that fused elements of Chinese folk dance, modern choreography, and popular jazz steps. Wayland Rudd made a career as an actor. The focus on artists who made Moscow their home for extended periods calls attention to the everyday activism of imagining and inhabiting the city that sustained it as a site of black internationalism, though the chapter also outlines the challenges they faced as foreigners and as Blacks.
Derek Denton
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199203147
- eISBN:
- 9780191695476
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199203147.003.0001
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Development
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about primordial emotions and the concept of consciousness. This book clarifies the definition of consciousness and ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about primordial emotions and the concept of consciousness. This book clarifies the definition of consciousness and self-awareness and examines the physiology of the primordial emotion of thirst and the interoceptor driven theory of origin of primary consciousness. It also evaluates the relevant works of several scientists including Gerald Edelman, John Searle, and Homer Smith.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about primordial emotions and the concept of consciousness. This book clarifies the definition of consciousness and self-awareness and examines the physiology of the primordial emotion of thirst and the interoceptor driven theory of origin of primary consciousness. It also evaluates the relevant works of several scientists including Gerald Edelman, John Searle, and Homer Smith.
