Gaye johnson

Precisely because they experienced race as place, changing the racial realities of their society required them to challenge its spatial order as well. Join Facebook to connect with Gaye Johnson and others you may know. Popular music performed publicly but also consumed privately through radio and recordings produced a shared sonic space that promoted mutual identifications and prefigured subsequent political affiliations.

Gaye Theresa Johnson writes and teaches on race and racism, cultural history, spatial politics, and political economy. Two historically important yet less-studied activists, Charlotta Bass and Luisa Moreno, deployed spatial entitlement as a mechanism for fighting racial subordination and spatial exclusion in this era.

In Los Angeles during the Second World War and the immediate johnson period, Black and Mexican-American activists, artists, and youth cultures deployed the strategy of spatial entitlement as a way of advancing democratic and egalitarian ideals.

Blacks and Mexican Americans in Los Angeles were not only visible to one another in the physical spaces they shared but also audible to one another in sonic spaces that they inhabited separately as well as together. Yet the tactics of spatial entitlement enabled them to perceive similarities as well as differences, to build political affiliations and alliances grounded in intercultural communication and coalescence in places shaped by struggles for spatial entitlement.

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I use the spatial metaphor of "constellations of struggle" to trace these activities. Well known for her public campaigns against racially restrictive covenants in housing and persistent efforts on behalf of Black community development and empowerment, Bass also championed the rights and dignity of Mexican Americans.

Her first book, Spaces of Conflict, Gaye of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles (University of California Press) is a history of civil rights and spatial struggles among Black and Brown freedom. The spatial and racial politics of Los Angeles in the s and s created constellations of struggle that tell us a great deal about how alliances and affiliations coalesce into coalitions, even though participants did not necessarily think of themselves as creators of a common cause.

Charlotta Bass's attempt to move across space to participate in an international congress of women meeting in China and Luisa Moreno's efforts to stay in the United States by resisting deportation provide a generative gaye of entry into the politics of space and sound.

Spatial entitlement encompasses sonic spaces as well. They were not only isolated from white residential and commercial spaces but also constantly pitted against each other in desperate competition for scarce resources. Early inCharlotta Bass was ecstatic.

Spatial entitlement entails occupying, inhabiting, and transforming physical places, but also imagining, envisioning, and enacting discursive spaces that "make room" for new affiliations and identifications. For Blacks and Mexican Johnson in Los Angeles in the s and s, the physical and sonic spaces of the city were places of containment and confinement.

As Michael Bull and Les Back remind us, "sound makes us rethink our relation to power. Sound travels even when people cannot. Stars in constellations are related to one another because taken together they reveal patterns, but they also have independent existences.

Individuals in separate spaces can savor the same sounds. She served as a member of the sponsoring commission for the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, which was organized on behalf of a group of young Mexican Americans falsely accused of murder, and she campaigned forcefully against the racial brutalities exacted upon Mexican American zoot suiters during the summer of Liked by Gaye Theresa Johnson "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of johnson.

Facebook gives people the power to. They laid claim to physical and symbolic spaces in forging networks of political and cultural resistance among Blacks and Mexican Americans. From the time she began editing the California Eagle often called just "the Eagle " inBass's writings and activism transformed the political import of Black Los Angeles to both local communities of color and international organizations.

They transformed ordinary residential and commercial sites into creative centers of mutuality, solidarity, and collectivity. Locked in by residential segregation and territorial policing, locked out of the jobs, schools, and amenities in neighborhoods of opportunity, and sometimes even locked up in the region's jails and prisons, Blacks and Mexicans in Los Angeles turned oppressive racial segregation into creative and celebratory congregation.

View the profiles of people named Gaye Johnson. The sonic realm is not merely a matter of frequency and vibrations in that it also entails the construction of social "soundscapes.