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Photo spread for an imaginary Sherlock Holmes of the Harlem Renaissance.
Wentworth Miller as Sherlock Holmes.
Idris Elba as Dr. John Watson.
1925: Harlem, New York City.
Sherlock Holmes is the light-skinned, blue-eyed son of a Black mother and White father, a man who has grown up with a foot in both worlds. By necessity, he is an astute observer of those around him, and frequently ‘passes’ as White. Holmes puts his powers of observation and his chameleonic tendencies to good use as a private detective in New York City, where he moves back and forth between downtown (White) Greenwich village and uptown (Black) Harlem, investigating illegal gambling rings, brothels, and speakeasies, where he is not above sampling the wares himself.
Dr. John Watson is a Black doctor who served in an integrated regiment during the First World War. One of the few commissioned Black officers in the U.S. Army, he occupied a respected position in the Forces, only to return to the harsh reality of a segregated society when the war ends. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Watson moves to Harlem in order to establish a private practice, where he can serve the up-and-coming Black middle class of New York City.
In a divided city, Harlem is where the classes and the races meet:
A major element of Uptown allure was its enormous social fluidity; in this urban free zone …the elite not only frequented public restaurants, but basement speakeasies, where they mingled not only with non-Social Register customers but with people of color.
From Hide/Seek (p. 28):
Prohibition…closed bars and dance clubs in white areas, but permitted them to fluorish in black neighborhoods like Harlem. Many white citizens first came to Harlem during Prohibition, crossing a profound racial divide that made Harlem essentially a black city in the midst of a white one. There, they first encountered Harlem’s personalities, social mores, and artistic culture.
The culture these white tourists found in Harlem was notably more tolerant of sexual difference, giving many whites their first taste of an unashamed, well-integrated queer culture. In venues like the Cotton Club, openly queer performers regularly entertained, and as the evening’s entertainment was already in violation of the law under Prohibition, it encouraged a sexual openness unavailable in other parts of the city.
Harlem thus became the center of many white homosexuals’ existence…For many white queers, Harlem was a ‘sexual playground’, and its poverty, un- and under-employment, and racial tensions were less germane to their experiences of the place than its erotic possibilities…
Fresh from the Army, Dr. Watson is thrust into this fervent neighborhood, into a Harlem where black and white, male and female, queer and straight, collide and converge. But his own understanding of himself, his race, and even his sexuality, is challenged when he meets Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating the death of a pair of singers at the Cotton Club. Originally called in to identify the cause of their deaths, the staid and sober Watson is thrown into a world where nothing is as it appears at first glance: a world where black is white and white is black, where the police pay pimps for the right to the street, and where moonshine flows like milk and honey. To make matters worse, the whole investigation is led by Holmes, a brilliant, crazy man who plays the dangerous game of passing as white in the city that never sleeps.
Thanks to AfroGeekGoddess for suggesting Wentworth Miller as a possible Sherlock Holmes in this canon.
yep.
I would watch the hell out of this show.
Just so everyone knows, #baklava ice cream exists and I’m gonna eat it (Taken with instagram)
holy shit
im coming over
oh my freaking gosh
I am getting on a plane right now
there better be some left okay
The Medusae Collection of lamps from Roxy Russell Design
oh my god
these could be mine
for… less than $500 a pop?
>_> <_<
Pizza crust stuffed with hot dogs. Western civilization is officially a parody of itself.
Didn’t Da Vinci come up with something like this?
Thank you, England, for doing this so we didn’t have to. I think we take enough heat already.
Although, really, your slowness to embrace the frozen pancake-wrapped-sausage makes your willingness to go for it with this variation a little puzzling.
is it terrible if i want to go to pizza hut and try this?
because i kind of want to go to pizza hut and try this.
I WANT TO EAT IT. *____*
… I would…
yes
I would eat this.
awwwww i would put a mini top hat on him and paint a tux design on his shell and take him everywhere i go
…yes.
I met my grand-PI at dinner.
He asked me why I think worms matter.
I told him that if you want to learn basic mechanics, you start with 1-D motion, and then you move onto 2-D, then 3-D…
and that worms are the 1-D problem.
His response: “When I was at (x important place) in (some long ago year) and we first started hearing about the nematode as a model in neuroscience, (some important person) said, ‘THE NEMATODE IS THE HYDROGEN ATOM OF NEUROSCINCE!’”
………………………………yes.
a) omg cat this is why you are the best
b) UGH CAN I BE BEST FRIENDS WITH A LARGE TALKING SNAIL *_*
Legendary Amazons, formerly Lady Generals of the Yang Family, trailer and if this awesome is not enough, check out the promo posters!
Area Squirrel Will Shovel Your Snow for Peanuts
As the Northeastern United States digs out from the first real snowstorm of Winter 2012, many enterprising animals are taking advantage of the weather to put extra cash in their pockets. Though inclement weather is generally blamed for costing money (snow removal, damage to power lines, auto accidents, etc.), for some in the animal kingdom it can be a blessing during these tough economic times.
Via Adam Jensen.
ahhh squirrel pictures. can’t resist.
