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Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Watch Whiteness Workout

By: Shannon L. Walsh

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Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

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By: Shannon L. Walsh

This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s–1920s). This book focuses on physical culture – systematic, non-competitive exercise performed under the direction of an expert – because tracing how people practiced physical culture in the Progressive Era, especially middle- and upper-class white women, reveals how modes of popular performance, institutional regulation, and ideologies of individualism and motherhood combined to sublimate whiteness beneath the veneer of liberal progressivism and reform. The sites in this book give the fullest picture of the different strata of physical culture for white women during that time and demonstrate the unracialization of whiteness through physical culture practices. By illuminating the ways in which whiteness in the US became a default identity category absorbed into the “universal” ideals of culture, arts, and sciences, the author shows how physical culture circulated as a popular performance form with its own conventions, audience, and promised profitability. Finally, the chapters reveal troubling connections between the daily habits physical culturists promoted and the eugenics movement’s drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.

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Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?

Community Politics and Grassroots Activism During the New Negro Era

By: Shannon King

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Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?

Community Politics and Grassroots Activism During the New Negro Era

By: Shannon King

Demonstrates how Harlemite's dynamic fight for their rights and neighborhood raised the black community's racial consciousness and established Harlem's legendary political culture. King uncovers early twentieth century Harlem as an intersection between the black intellectuals and artists who created the New Negro Renaissance and the working class who found fought daily to combat institutionalized racism and gender discrimination in both Harlem and across the city. --Adapted from publisher description.

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Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

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By: Shannon L. Walsh

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Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?

Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

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