Siren of the Tropics
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American-born French dancer, singer and actressNov 30, 2021 · Josephine Baker and her children, 1969. Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia. By bringing her experiment into the public eye, she hoped that others would follow suit, forming “rainbow tribes” far and ...
History Josephine Baker’s Rainbow Tribe To prove that racial harmony was possible, the dancer adopted 12 children from around the globe—and charged admission to watch them coexist.
Apr 14, 2014 · Creating a sensation with her risqué nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysées, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how her ambitions of later years were even more daring and ...
Oct 2, 2009 · Josephine Baker's Rainbow Tribe. Long before Angelina Jolie, Mia Farrow and Madonna made headlines with their adoptive families, 1920s star Josephine Baker tried to combat racism by adopting 12 ...
Dec 5, 2021 · A Son Sends Josephine Baker to the Panthéon. ... Baker wanted to assemble a “rainbow tribe” to serve as a living demonstration of unity. The children’s upbringing, at Château des Milandes ...
Oct 9, 2015 · The most dazzling part of Guterl’s transnational cultural history of Baker’s idiosyncratic civil rights activism is chapter 6, a deeply researched analysis of Les Milandes, where Baker invited the public to witness her Rainbow Tribe at play in a theme park setting worthy of Disneyland.
