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...symposium" which features a photograph of what appears to be a light-skinned Black woman doing a strip-tease in front of a white audience while a Black male saxophonist played in the background. The photograph is framed by the title and the following quotation from Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road,"...just old-fashioned spade kicks. What other kicks are there?" The image generated by the picture is one of Blacks as entertainment for whites. This image is intensified by the use of the word "paradigm" in the title and Kerouac's quotation, which implies that this kind...
...words "Spade Kicks" are an allusion to Jack Kerouac's novelOn the Road. Writing about his own experiences, Kerouac describes Denver's Black community...
...short, the speakers believe that this attitude, held by Kerouac and others comprising the white liberal eiite, prevented the implementation of plans to strenghten the Black family. The white-imposed stereotype of Black society as a paradigm of "sexual liberation"-the stereotype of "spade kicks," if you will-is the very thing Hardy and Jones blame for many of the problems Black Americans face today...
McDonald said that people do not understand theposter. The phrase "Spade Kicks" is a reference toJack Kerouac's book On the Road, he said...
...OPEN ROAD. Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) prefers the stage, where he can blend metaphysical ambition and gothic excess. In this tale of strugglers on the loose, there are echoes of Kerouac, Beckett and Reaganomics interwoven with Tesich's moral fervor. At Chicago's Goodman Theater...