Comments on: The Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit/ la belle epoque in our modern world Tue, 22 May 2012 00:16:37 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Beyond Victoriana Special Edition: Odds & Ends #3 « Beyond Victoriana http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit/#comment-11101 Beyond Victoriana Special Edition: Odds & Ends #3 « Beyond Victoriana Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:35:54 +0000 http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit-at-the-1900-paris-exposition/#comment-11101 [...] Edmonia Lewis’s “Death of Cleopatra” Cocotte of the Week: Sissieretta Jones The Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition Honey For Friends, Stings for Enemies: The Washington Bee The Souls of Black Folk: Arts & [...] [...] Edmonia Lewis’s “Death of Cleopatra” Cocotte of the Week: Sissieretta Jones The Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition Honey For Friends, Stings for Enemies: The Washington Bee The Souls of Black Folk: Arts & [...]

]]> By: Lady Estelle T. Barada http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit/#comment-9464 Lady Estelle T. Barada Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:58:04 +0000 http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit-at-the-1900-paris-exposition/#comment-9464 That is so true. I want to learn as much as I can about the great part blacks have contributed to history. All I learned in school and books written by blacks was about the toil of slavery and the fight to be free.. It is a new awakening to learn of just hard working , middle class, educated blacks. That is so true. I want to learn as much as I can about the great part blacks have contributed to history. All I learned in school and books written by blacks was about the toil of slavery and the fight to be free.. It is a new awakening to learn of just hard working , middle class, educated blacks.

]]> By: Evangeline http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit/#comment-9403 Evangeline Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:38:16 +0000 http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit-at-the-1900-paris-exposition/#comment-9403 Thank you Lady Estelle! It is so wonderful to find these images because it solidifies the presence of blacks in society. It can be lonely as a lover of the Victorian era to find no one who looks like you. Thank you Lady Estelle! It is so wonderful to find these images because it solidifies the presence of blacks in society. It can be lonely as a lover of the Victorian era to find no one who looks like you.

]]> By: Lady Estelle T. Barada http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit/#comment-9369 Lady Estelle T. Barada Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:35:01 +0000 http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit-at-the-1900-paris-exposition/#comment-9369 This was most interesting and pleasing reading. I absolute love the photograph and portraits. I could totally connect with there faces. I will have to send this article to my family. Thanks, Lady Estelle This was most interesting and pleasing reading. I absolute love the photograph and portraits. I could totally connect with there faces.
I will have to send this article to my family.
Thanks,
Lady Estelle

]]> By: Evangeline http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit/#comment-9027 Evangeline Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:38:31 +0000 http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit-at-the-1900-paris-exposition/#comment-9027 Indeed! What was particularly delicious about the acclaim was that there <i>were</i> "exotic" displays erected at the same time. I would love to read contemporary reactions to those who stumbled upon this display--the US sources I've read were either contemptuous, blase, or silent. Indeed! What was particularly delicious about the acclaim was that there were “exotic” displays erected at the same time. I would love to read contemporary reactions to those who stumbled upon this display–the US sources I’ve read were either contemptuous, blase, or silent.

]]> By: Hels http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit/#comment-8989 Hels Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:37:35 +0000 http://edwardianpromenade.com/society/the-negro-exhibit-at-the-1900-paris-exposition/#comment-8989 Universal Exhibitions very often included villages from Developing Countries, to be viewed as a bit of a side show alley with exotic food and dancing girls. So that made it doubly important to get the Progress of the American Negro exhibition exactly right in Paris in 1900. It could have so easily slipped into being a story of quaint exotica. The judges must have loved the Exhibit of American Negroes. I have never heard of any one pavilion winning 17 medals at a World Fair before, or since. Bloody brilliant, I say. Universal Exhibitions very often included villages from Developing Countries, to be viewed as a bit of a side show alley with exotic food and dancing girls. So that made it doubly important to get the Progress of the American Negro exhibition exactly right in Paris in 1900. It could have so easily slipped into being a story of quaint exotica.

The judges must have loved the Exhibit of American Negroes. I have never heard of any one pavilion winning 17 medals at a World Fair before, or since. Bloody brilliant, I say.

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