iona rozeal brown: Student Commentaries

 

black on both sides . . .

The passages below are excerpted from essays on the Japanese Geisha and Ganguro that Professor Xuexin Liu assigned to her advanced students in Japanese. Written in English, these passages were selected through a competition to accompany the exhibit in the Spelman Museum of Fine Art by iona rozeal brown, a3, an afro-asiatic allegory. Professor Liu’s students then shaped loose translations of these excerpts in Japanese. So, below are some young African American perceptions of the Ganguro culture in Japan and the artistic backdrop of Japanese woodcuts of the Geisha that inform Ms. brown’s art. The Bush-Hewlett Grant—Building Virtual Learning Communities—also supported this commentary and translation.

You can read excerpts from the commentaries of the following students:

Charli Kemp	Chris Shaw	Aryen Moore-Alston	Sheena Young
	Joseph Barden	Erin Aisha-Williams