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Tart Deco™- Vintage Glamour & Retro Style: October 2012
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Tart Deco™ is a blog that journals vintage and retro culture from 1920-50, including info on fashion, music, sewing techniques and vintage weddings. 1912 Titanic Sewing Project. Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Sweet Nothings: Women in Rockabilly Music. Janis Martin, 1956, Age 15. Image courtesy of the WRVA Collection, Library of Virginia. Online through my university. It is 99 pages of rockabilly goodness, focusing on LaVern Baker and Janis Martin, of course. Paper 11. http:/ dc.uwm.edu/etd/11. Sweet Nothing...
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stuff white people do: feel disappointed because Obama apparently isn't a magic negro
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Stuff white people do. The ways of white folks, I mean,. White folks . . . Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Feel disappointed because Obama apparently isn't a magic negro. I'm more interested in Larry Wilmore's segment (at 02:25), in which he satirizes common white expectations of a heroically positioned black man - expectations, that is, that Obama would be another iteration of an old Hollywood standby, the Magic. So I'm interested, as Wilmore seems to be, in common white reactions to Obama as a black man&#...