#tar beach

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Tar beach, 1980s

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“Tar Beach. Life on the Rooftops of Little Italy”, a book by Susan Meiselas in collaboration with Angel Marinaccio and Virginia Dell’Orio,

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Faith Ringgold

Tar Beach

1988

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Tar Beach

Life on the Rooftops of Little Italy

Susan Meiselas with Virginia Bynum & Angel Marinaccio

Introduzione di Martin Scorsese

Damiani, Bologna 2020,96 pagine, 81 illustrazioni, english                            ISBN 9788862087223

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Nel quartiere di Little Italy a New York c’è un luogo che ha visto sfilare davanti a sè intere generazioni di immigrati italiani. Sui suoi tetti, caratterizzati da ampie terrazze, si svolgevano i riti collettivi di un’intera comunità̀. Le più̀ disparate occasioni, matrimoni, comunioni, lauree ed eventi speciali, trovavano sui tetti del quartiere il luogo ideale in cui festeggiare. 'Tar Beach. Life on the Rooftops of Little Italy' raccoglie un corpus di fotografie scattate in quelle occasioni tra il 1940 e il 1970. Tutto il materiale fotografico è frutto della selezione di Susan Meiselas e di due sue vicine di casa, Virginia Bynum e Angel Marinaccio. Con un’introduzione scritta da uno dei più celebri figli della comunità italo-americana, il regista Martin Scorsese, 'Tar Beach' affronta con un taglio inedito l’integrazione degli immigrati italiani nella società americana del secondo dopo guerra. Scrive il regista: “I tetti erano i luoghi dell’evasione, i nostri santuari. Bastava percorrere quella rampa di scale perchè la folla, la sporcizia, il rumore costante, il caos, la claustrofobia, sparissero d’improvviso. Lì potevi respirare. Potevi sognare. Avresti potuto farlo.”

18/10/20

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“Tar Beach” explained...

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Femmes wore their hair in tightly curled pageboy bobs, or piled high on their heads in sculptured bunches of curls, or in feather cuts framing their faces. That sweetly clean fragrance of beauty-parlor that hung over all Black women's gatherings in the fifties was present here also, adding its identifiable smell of hot comb and hair pomade to the other aromas in the room. Butches wore their hair cut shorter, in a D.A shaped to a point in the back, or a short pageboy, or sometimes in a tightly curled poodle that predated the natural afro. But this was a rarity, and I can only remember one other Black woman at that party besides me whose hair was not straightened, and she was an acquaintance of ours from the Lower East Side named Ida.

Tar Beach from Audre Lorde

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Originally set as text accompanying the story quilt by the same name, Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach is young protagonist Cassie Louise Lightfoot's dreamscape. When Cassie discovers she can fly, she gains freedom- freedom to explore places she would not have access to otherwise, financial freedom for her father who is denied entrance into the local union because he's "colored or a half-breed Indian," and freedom to eat all of the ice cream. From Tar Beach to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, dreams of flight to freedom are constant motifs in African American fiction and nonfiction.

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Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold