As a rapidly growing, multibillion dollar industry, tattooing is quickly becoming a mainstream art form and commodity. Although the ancient art form, originates from civilizations all over the world, the modern history in the United States has largely limited Black individuals from receiving the recommended training (apprenticeship) until about the last twenty-five years. The purpose of this study is to explore the history of the Black Tattoo Community in Atlanta. The following questions will guide the study: What is the history behind the Black Tattoo Community in the Atlanta area? What are the experiences of Black artists apprenticing and learning to tattoo? What are the differences, if any, when tattooing people of color? What impact has television, the internet, and social media had on the tattoo industry, and in particular on Black tattoo artists? This study utilizes an oral historical interview method to answer these questions.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-19T10:47:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Diane Sousa da Silva Lima.pdf: 31398514 bytes, checksum: 309c3b9f66ff0634d0cf6863b107f3ad (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-19T10:47:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Diane Sousa da Silva Lima.pdf: 31398514 bytes, checksum: 309c3b9f66ff0634d0cf6863b107f3ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUCSP / This research analyzes the effects of sense of a set of Afro-Brazilian contemporary works and artistic practices from the discursive mechanisms of enunciation that configure the regime of meaning, interaction and risk. Analyzing a corpus formed by a set of practices and actions that intervene in urban, media and institutional spaces, taking as a temporal cut the beginning of the 21st century to the present day, it aims to understand how this black body by means of enunciative mechanisms of its choices aesthetic arrangements of plasticity, figurativeness and thematization of a set of works. By discursively recombining the arrangements, they construct new narratives, new senses endowed with criticality that we aim to show, collaborate for the deconstruction of racial stereotypes. The central hypothesis of the research is that the fact that a target blackbody becomes an enunciator, enjoying its own faculty of the human condition of giving meaning to the world, is able through artistic practices to create ruptures that contribute to make the racial stereotypes of the country. The second hypothesis is that these practices, by creating interventions in the media, urban and institutional spaces, break the regimes of invisibility that, under the effect of structural racism, operate in the official circuits and legitimating national cultural production. When accessing a memory of the body, the third hypothesis proposes that these practices actualize in an ancestral knowledge, resignifying the social imaginary, encompassing new ways of doing and aesthetic possibilities. Using as a framework the semiotics of Algirdas Julien Greimas, the semiotics of the social of Eric Landowski and the contributions to the plastic semiotics of Ana Claudia de Oliveira, we verified that through the transitivity of enunciating, the set of works analyzed show that there were significant ruptures in the visibility schemes in support of a process of re-signification that is under way; also, that by being an act of resistance, they actualize in the present, an ancestral and mythical memory that keeps connected different times and spaces. Still, producing affections and intervening in the media, urban and institutional spaces, we saw that before the structure of the racial program, the practices are still focused and restricted, limiting their communication amplitude. At the end, we find that the aesthetic possibilities that we inaugurate point us to a future of learning where more investment in aestheticity and strategies of visibility are essential to potentiate their senses being sensed / Esta pesquisa analisa os efeitos de sentido de um conjunto de obras e práticas artísticas contemporâneas afro-brasileiras a partir dos mecanismos discursivos da enunciação que configuram os regime de sentido, interação e risco. Analisando um corpus formado por um conjunto de práticas e ações que intervém nos espaços urbanos, midiáticos e institucionais tendo como recorte temporal o início do século XXI até os dias de hoje, objetiva-se entender como esse corpo negro por mecanismos enunciativos de suas escolhas monta arranjos estéticos da plasticidade, figuratividade e tematização de um conjunto de obras. Ao recombinar discursivamente os arranjos, constroem novas narrativas, novos sentidos dotados de criticidade que objetivamos mostrar, colaboram para a desconstrução dos estereótipos raciais. A hipótese central da pesquisa é de que o fato de um corpo negro destinador assumir-se enunciador, gozando da sua faculdade própria da condição humana de dar sentido ao mundo, é capaz através das práticas artísticas, de criar rupturas que contribuam para fazer sentir os estereótipos raciais do país. A segunda hipótese é que essas práticas ao criar intervenções nos espaços midiáticos, urbanos e institucionais rompem os regimes de invisibilidade que, sob efeito de um racismo estrutural, operam nos circuitos oficiais e legitimadores da produção cultural nacional. Ao acessar uma memória do corpo, a terceira hipótese propõe que essas práticas atualizam em ato um conhecimento ancestral ressignificando o imaginário social, inaugurando novas formas de fazer e possibilidades estéticas. Usando como arcabouço a semiótica de Algirdas Julien Greimas, da semiótica do social de Eric Landowski e as contribuições para a semiótica plástica de Ana Claudia de Oliveira, verificamos que através da transitividade do se enunciar, o conjunto de obras analisadas mostram que houveram significativas rupturas nos regimes de visibilidade corroborando para um processo de ressignificação que se encontra em curso; também, que ao ser ato de resistência, elas atualizam no presente, uma memória ancestral e mítica que mantém ligados diferentes tempos e espaços. Ainda, que produzindo afetações e intervindo nos espaços midiáticos, urbanos e institucionais, vimos que diante da estrutura do programa racial, as práticas ainda são focalizadas e restritas, limitando sua amplitude comunicacional. Ao fim, constatamos que as possibilidades estéticas que inauguram nos apontam um futuro de aprendizado onde mais investimento em esteticidade e estratégias de visibilidade são imprescindíveis para potencializar os seus sentidos ser sentidos

This thesis analyzes the origin and impact of Black homophobia found in activist spaces of mid- to late-twentieth-century American society. Black gay Americans were subjected to intersecting forms of systemic and cultural oppression that were exceedingly hard to escape due to both the homophobia in Black spaces and the racism in gay spaces. Black gay activists and artists thus had to create their own avenues of expression where they and others could fully embrace what it meant to be Black and gay. This work utilizes a Black feminist framework to explore the roots of Black homophobia and how this type of bigotry was able to so deeply infiltrate Black activist spaces like the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Black homophobia originated as a response to White supremacist domination of the Black body, and was able to spread through the community for generations through paths such as hypermasculinity, the Black church, and misogynoir. The experiences and voices of Black gay activists and artists are at the forefront of this work in an effort to shine a light on a group often overlooked by Black history and LGBTQ history alike. This thesis works to fill in one of the many gaps present in the historiography pertaining to Black gay life in America, though more contributions can and should be made in order to shift the field away from its historic focus on the White gay male. An investigation of Black gay exclusion from Black and gay activist spaces offers valuable insight into how Black gay activists and artists persevered and cultivated their own spheres of inclusion within a society that fundamentally opposed virtually every part of their identities.

Essa pesquisa aborda o trabalho do ator Grande Otelo no teatro de revista brasileiro produzido entre as décadas de 20 e 40, analisando suas atuações em três momentos, a participação na Companhia Negra de Revistas, os trabalhos desenvolvidos na Companhia Jardel Jércolis e a fase do ator como artista fixo do Cassino da Urca. / This research approaches Grande Otelo´s work as an actor in the brazilian revue theater between 20s and 40s, analyzing his performances in three moments: the participation in the Black Company Revue, the work in the Jércolis Jardel Company and his phase as artist of the Urca Casino.

Essa pesquisa aborda o trabalho do ator Grande Otelo no teatro de revista brasileiro produzido entre as décadas de 20 e 40, analisando suas atuações em três momentos, a participação na Companhia Negra de Revistas, os trabalhos desenvolvidos na Companhia Jardel Jércolis e a fase do ator como artista fixo do Cassino da Urca. / This research approaches Grande Otelo´s work as an actor in the brazilian revue theater between 20s and 40s, analyzing his performances in three moments: the participation in the Black Company Revue, the work in the Jércolis Jardel Company and his phase as artist of the Urca Casino.

This study unites the burgeoning academic field of exhibition histories and the critiques of race-based exhibition practices that crystallised in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. It concerns recent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly funded art museums and galleries that are part of a broader attempt to increase the diversity of histories and perspectives represented in public art collections and exhibitions. The research focuses on three concurrent 2010 exhibitions that aimed to offer a non-hegemonic reading of black creativity through the use of non-art-historical conceptual and alternative curatorial models: Afro Modern (Tate Liverpool), Action (The Bluecoat), and a retrospective of works by Chris Ofili (Tate Britain). Comparative exhibitions of the past were typically premised on concepts of difference that ultimately resulted in the notional separation of black artists from mainstream discourses on contemporary art and histories of British art. Through a close and critical textual analysis of these three recent exhibitions, which is informed by J.L. Austin’s theory of speech acts (1955), the study considers whether, and to what extent the delimiting curatorial practices of the past have been successfully abandoned by public art museums and galleries, and furthermore, whether it has been possible for British art institutions to reject the entrenched, exclusive conceptions of British culture that negated black contributions to the canon and narratives of British art in the first place. The exhibition case studies are complemented and contextualised by an in-depth history of the Bluecoat’s engagement with black creativity between 1976 and 2012, which provides a particular insight into the ways that debates about representation, difference and separatism have impacted the policies and practices of one culturally significant art gallery that is frequently overlooked in histories of black British art. With reference to the notion of legitimate coercion as defined by Zygmunt Bauman (2000), the study determines that long-standing hegemonic structures continue to inform the modes through which public art museums and galleries in Britain curate and control black creativity.

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