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...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 of performance is an exclusively Black activity...
Late last week, Peninsula hung posters around campus advertising a lecture we are sponsoring entitled, "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation...
...words "Spade Kicks" are an allusion to Jack Kerouac's novelOn the Road. Writing about his own experiences, Kerouac describes Denver's Black community...
...among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night. [The Black world offered] just old-fashioned spade kicks, what other kicks are there...
...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...