MENU: 2.3.5.j. Suddenly visible Blacks
PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE NO LONGER IGNORED
Parisians have traditionally welcomed African-American performers...
Wiki Timbres / Entrée to Black Paris for many more
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| Monique Wells |
...most visibly Josephine Baker...
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| Claude Abron |
Inauguration of the place Josephine Baker, 14th, with the district Mayor and the American singer Ursuline Kairson (in 2000)
...who entered the Panthéon...*
(On November 30, 2020)
* France's secular mausoleum
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On that occasion a journalist of the television station France 24 interviewed Monique Wells, an American Black who publishes Entry to Black Paris and guides visits about African-Americans.
...was recalled in an ad and in street art...
Bus stop in the 13th, november 2023; decor 2024 (Facebook, Jill Danger)
...by a coin (in 2024)...
Facebook (Ricki Stevenson)
...and by street art:
169 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 13e (Facebook, Ricki Stevenson)
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Inserting hip hop in a classic opera goes farther because rather than ad to the current culture, it renews tradition...
(En octobre 2019)
Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1836, at the Opéra Bastille
...and the Marseillaise:
Axelle Saint-Cirel, of Guadeloupean origin, on the roof of the Grand Palais during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games (in 2024).
These pages observe that change.
In brief
- The City honors heroes of color
- Ads reveal the shift
- Marketing experts advance step by step
- Is there a downside to ads' racial mix?
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