A paradise of bachelors: remodeling domesticity and masculinity in the turn-of-the-century New York bachelor apartment

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The turn-of-the-century New York bachelor apartment symbolized the redefinition of domesticity and masculinity during that time. The popular press' coverage of the trend contributed significantly to the time's changing mores. Domesticity, once thought of as the domain of women, was de-genderized, at least based on press accounts of bachelor apartments, interior decoration and cookery. This apparent domesticity, in turn, led to the theorizing of a counternormative masculine identity.

Analysis, New York, New York, 19th century AD, Apartments, Homes and haunts, Masculinity, Single men, Bachelors

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Imaging the Panthers: representing black power and masculinity, 1960s-1990s

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The Black Panther Party and its symbolisms and ideology still exercise significant influence over many contemporary black Americans. The persistent problems of inequality are prompting many black Americans to look back to the days when the political profile of the Panthers was at its zenith. However, the Panthers' patriarchal dimensions whereby black manhood is glorified are a dangerous limitation to the visualization of the black experience.

African Americans, Black identity, Black Panthers

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New Deal politics and regionalist art: Thomas Hart Benton's 'A Social History of the State of Indiana.'

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Thomas Hart Benton's mural 'A Social History of the State of Indiana,' exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, illustrates the hope for reform through New Deal politics. Benton suggests that the republican virtues of the past were needed to realize the New Deal hope for the future. The mural is an example of Benton's adaptation of modernism in the style known as regionalism.

History, Political aspects, Criticism and interpretation, Art, Regionalism, Regionalism in art, Political art, Politics in art, Benton, Thomas Hart (American artist)

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