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Turner, Ph.D. pturner@afam.ucla.edu Professor of World Arts and Culture/Dance Professor of African American Studies Director, Arthur Ashe Legacy Project 1401 Kaufman Hall UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1438 https://www.patriciaaturner.com/advocacy daily 0.75 2024-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/c2c10585-0791-4c11-8a6f-2428f4a78d71/FiatLuxAsheCourse.jpg Advocacy - Teaching Understanding the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Through the Life of Arthur Ashe Designed and taught by Professor Turner, this UCLA freshman seminar introduces students to full scope of Ashe’s life as a lens through which to view American history. Topics include Ashe’s early years playing tennis in the Jim Crow south, his storied tennis career, his long engagement with the peoples of South Africa, his contributions as a public intellectual, his profound health challenges, and many other topics. Professor Turner with her Fiat Lux seminar group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/f1c0217d-6aaa-4068-91ca-989ad99b601f/ArthurAshe.jpg Advocacy - Public Advocacy The Arthur Ashe booth at the US Open Each year UCLA alumni and Ashe devotees staff a booth at the US Open, home of Arthur Ashe Stadium. For the full run of the popular grand slam tournament—Arthur Ashe was the first male winner in 1968—tennis fans can purchase assorted good with all of the proceeds directed at the Arthur Ashe Legacy fund at UCLA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/b8b316c9-1c28-4de5-b37d-f60487363dbf/oralhistoryAshe.jpg Advocacy - Preserving the History The Arthur Ashe Oral History and Archival Project In 2020, Turner and the Arthur Ashe team were awarded a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Those resources enabled them to move forward on an oral history project devoted to collecting stories from individuals who knew Ashe. Photo: Chinyere Nwonye, Harriette Mandeville, Dr. Edgar (Eddie) Mandeville, Yolanda Hester https://www.patriciaaturner.com/trash-talk daily 0.75 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/1646887623754-WVT3EZEI7SWHNN9YGT1J/Turner+comp2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/6973bae1-6708-4c9d-848e-b27b76f7ece7/Picture1.png Trash Talk - 2004: Flagged Down From the very beginning, rhetoric around the symbols and displays of patriotism were problematic for Barack Obama. No matter how many flag pins he wore and how many times he sang the national anthem, he was unable to convince some Americans that he was patriotic. Despite being an obviously faked composite, the image to the left “demonstrated” his lack of patriotism in comparison with election rivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/f4759a70-dead-4781-ab32-7b264926e79e/Birthers.png Trash Talk - 2008: Born to Run Legends about Obama’s birth and allegations that he was not a legitimate citizen of the United States were so pervasive that several prominent national public opinion polling outlets asked likely voters if they believed Obama was a citizen. And each time a poll was administered it determined that the number of Americans who believed that Obama had misrepresented his place of birth increased. This chapter offers an extended analysis of the many versions of allegations Obama was constitutionally ineligible for the presidency due to the circumstances of his birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/44728456-5bfa-4787-8324-f467c1c5c8cb/Brotherhood.jpg Trash Talk - 2008 - 2012: Articles of Faith Articles of Faith traces the evolution of beliefs about Barack Obama’s religious faith. Critics used his middle name, Hussein, to cast him as a Muslim and associate him with 9/11. In addition to the ubiquitous Muslim beliefs, the chapter also analyzes the controversy that ensued after transcripts revealed that his long-time pastor, Jeremiah Wright, had repeated well-known conspiracy theories in sermons at Trinity Baptist Church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/9a59db76-fe2d-4cf5-b28d-79d7ba9feb50/Michelle-JoanRivers.jpg Trash Talk - 2014: Michelle Matters “I so believe Joan [Rivers] was killed for telling the world Michelle is a man.” - YouTube comment Michelle Obama enjoyed remarkable popularity from her earliest days in the limelight. Her confident, smiling visage adorned the covers of glossy magazines, and her activities in service to her causes resonated with voters unbothered by the prominence of a smart black woman. Critics began by calling her education into question, dismissing her Ivy League degrees as evidence of misguided affirmative action policies. The severity of anti-Michelle lore intensified with each year in the White House, including widespread memes that the tall, physically fit First Lady was either secretly male or a transgender woman. In 2014, it reached absurd heights when a conspiracy theory alleged that the Obamas had orchestrated the death of Joan Rivers, who passed away shortly after snapping on camera that Barack was gay and Michelle “a tranny.” 81 years old at the time, an autopsy linked her death to a botched medical procedure — sparking the YouTube commenter’s avowal of foul play quoted above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/2234ee3c-6ad3-43b9-92c4-7f99355134f7/ebola.png Trash Talk - 2008 - 2020: Pandemic Levels This chapter documents Obama lore regarding the HIV-AIDS, Ebola, and Covid-19 viruses. HIV-AIDS lore threatened to undermine his 2008 campaign for the presidency; accusations that he fueled the spread of the Ebola virus likely tipped the scales in the 2014 mid-term elections. And although Obama was an ex-president when the COVID-19 outbreak emerged, one of the most popular conspiracy theories alleged that when he was president he conspired with Melinda Gates, Anthony Fauci, and Chinese scientists to develop a lethal virus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/becf7ca7-c5bc-45d0-804e-fd94d22b01e8/lab.png Trash Talk - 2016-2020: Obama Legends in the Age of Trump The narratives that surfaced in the weeks, months and years after Obama left the White House were a microcosm of those he and his family endured over the previous decades. Stories that the Trump cleaning crew found illicit drug paraphernalia in the master bedroom of the White House reinforced the stereotype that he was a street thug from the hood. Malia’s acceptance to Harvard was met with the same insults her mother had endured. QAnon’s attacks were, of course, byzantine conspiracy theories design to undercut opponents of Trump. When Trump and his followers contested the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, the conviction that Barack Obama was capable of manipulating the election surfaced in a series of conspiracy theories now labelled “Italygate,” a convoluted narrative that in which Obama is said to have conspired with the Italian government to tamper with American voting machines to favor Biden. https://www.patriciaaturner.com/turnpike daily 0.75 2022-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/4a2f5ceb-c0a9-43ee-ae4b-65ba0d4bba35/Turnpike.png Turnpike - The Turnpike The first 18 years of Turner’s life straddled the villages of Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor, New York. In the 1930s, her parents were part of the original African Americans — almost all from the South — to put down roots on what was often called “the turnpike” in Bridgehampton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/2a76a655-cce0-4c6f-92fb-3805c07a17fc/6.png Turnpike - The Hills In the 1950s they built one of the first homes in neighboring Sag Harbor Hills, well known as one of America’s first vacation communities for African Americans. In her next full-length project, Turner will explore the ways in which the black communities of Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor exemplify demographic and cultural patterns evident throughout the United States. Photos from the Sykes-Turner Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/891ca4b0-9be1-480b-a880-bb72c93d5162/TheFarm.png Turnpike - The Farm With its agricultural economy, Bridgehampton attracted rural, working class African Americans whose farming skills were much needed by local potato farmers. Using ethnographic field work, archival research, and her own semi-reliable memory, Turner seeks to tell largely unknown but very important stories of the people who made these communities sing. Photo courtesy Judy Tompkins, The Other Hampton https://www.patriciaaturner.com/riches daily 0.75 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/ae65a356-3bbd-46bc-9c7a-d4a15396c429/1_TurnerPatricia022Beach+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/37e41863-cec5-4f8a-815c-6c9e62b3fc2e/TomkinsBHwoman.png Our Own Riches Unlike similarly ambitious blacks who were enchanted by the bright lights and tall buildings of city life, the Turners—and many others who participated in this under-documented example of chain migration—preferred to work the land. They just didn’t want to be cheated out of their compensation and denied access to schools and stores. With its thriving potato and duck farms and fish factories, the Hamptons provided a rural working environment in which former sharecroppers could use the agricultural skills they had honed in the South and raise their families in a setting defined by fields and beaches rather than skyscrapers and factories. Lula Mae Pettamay, potato harvesting season. Photo: Courtesy Judy Tomkins, The Other Hampton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/b8c73d55-85bd-484b-bbb7-f38bd99b5b83/NTurnersign.png Our Own Riches - In We Came With Own Riches: How The Migrations of Black Folk Strengthened The Hamptons, Turner documents the stories of the black population that has long been an essential component of the Hamptons’ economy. Using archival sources containing compelling clues about her paternal and maternal ancestors’ challenging lives in Southampton County, Virginia, she reconstructs the harrowing circumstances that provoked so many early-twentieth-century blacks to take a chance on a new community several hundred miles from home. Well into the twentieth century, Southampton County, Virginia, site of the infamous 1831 rebellion of Nat Turner, exemplified the well-known obstacles and indignities fostered by an unapologetically white supremacist regime. But Turner’s hours in the archives and days on Virginia roads also revealed the spiritual and psychological assets nurtured by her ancestors and their neighbors that enabled them to make progress in the North. “Nat Turner’s Insurrection” historical signage in Southampton County,Virginia. Photo: Patricia Turner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/bf0665a5-3578-452c-a6d6-1dec809dcf1b/pyrrhus-concer.png Our Own Riches - Just as the historical record pays little attention to the blacks who migrated to rural areas, it also glosses over the long existence of slavery in northern colonies. From the earliest arrival of whites on Long Island in the 17th century, a blended population of enslaved peoples and Native American people were essential to the building of wealth in the whaling and maritime industries that empowered the eastern end of Long Island. In telling the stories of indentured and enslaved individuals such as Pyrrhus Concer, Drusilla Crook, and many individuals documented only by their first names, Turner gives voice to blacks who carved out respectable lives for themselves and made meaningful contributions to their communities. Born during the last decades of slavery in New York, Pyrrhus Concer (1814-1887) became a highly successful whaler and businessman. Photo: Southampton Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/822deafc-a292-4eb6-be24-9bd03334ad42/VanHoutenOrchestra.jpg Our Own Riches - From the Civil War to the Jazz Age In the same decade that jazz age baron Henry du Pont built a fifty-room house on Meadow Lane in Southampton, trumpeter Demas Dean of Sag Harbor launched his career as an actual jazz pioneer, all of his training having taken place in Sag Harbor under the tutelage of his music maestro “Professor" James Van Houten, a veteran of a colored regiment in the Civil War. A 19th century photograph of “Professor” James Van Houten (top left) and his Sag Harbor students. Photo: The John Jermain Memorial Library Sag Harbor Local History Archives Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/040b727e-4d16-4b36-86b2-f1bb6040caa7/tempImage6TvLos.jpg Our Own Riches - With each passing decade of the twentieth century, African Americans expanded their reach throughout Southampton, East Hampton, Bridgehampton and the many surrounding villages that comprise the south fork of Long Island. Although many members of the first generation of transplants were limited to farm labor in fields and barns or domestic work in the mansions of the wealthy, as their children made their way through the integrated school system, subsequent generations sought and succeeded at more challenging and lucrative occupations. Sons and daughters whose parents made do with repurposed outbuildings and outhouses built themselves single family homes complete with bathrooms and dining rooms. Amos Wyche and Billy DePetris. Photo: Judy Tomkins, The Other Hampton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/6c9eb514-6f88-4548-aa20-dbed6b548af8/Andersonhouse.png Our Own Riches Compared to the opulence of the mansions on East Hampton’s Lily Pond Lane and Bridgehampton’s Dune Road, these structures were strikingly modest. But they were honest homes where neighbors gathered for game nights in the winter and barbecues featuring delicacies every bit as tasty as any elsewhere were mainstays of the summer. To be sure, the Hamptons were not spared the sting of racism; even representatives of the Ku Klux Klan periodically infiltrated its institutions. But, unlike their southern home places they visited for church anniversaries and family milestone events, there were no Confederate statues or “whites only” signs. The Anderson Family. Photo: Judy Tomkins, The Other Hampton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/4dee9780-d327-442e-83ca-c5ef469f9ac8/Gladys-Barnes.png Our Own Riches By boat, train, and car, accomplished entrepreneurs from the boroughs of New York discovered the Eastville section of Sag Harbor, thus beginning the establishment of one of the most enduring black recreational communities in the United States. Turner tells the inspiring stories of these professional African Americans who set out in search of a less crowded setting where they could spend their weekends and summers away from the heat and chaos of the city. Gladys Barnes. Photo: © Courtesy the Barnes Family Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/1bdecc22-204e-4ca7-be82-ff135ed23c6a/Dismond.Barnes.png Our Own Riches Heralded for their accomplishments in medicine, law, education, and other domains, pioneering black Sag Harborites had much to offer. The eminent physician H. Binga Dismond established medical offices both in Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor. Mary Kathleen “Kathy” Tucker, educator, served as executive director of the Bridgehampton Childcare Center. Arthur H. Barnes on the steps of the original Dismond summer home in Sag Harbor. Photo: © Courtesy the Barnes Family Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/1a6a9244-09e2-4433-9e44-5d6158d43c8d/AbramTurner_Grave.png Our Own Riches - After a career of exploring others’ stories, Turner’s own remarkable family constitutes the lodestar for We Came With Our Own Riches. She begins by reconstructing the life of her paternal great grandfather, Abram Turner, born in 1846 in Drewryville, Virginia. Entering adulthood at the end of the Civil War, he was in the first cohort of black voters in Virginia. He legally married his beloved wife, moved from share-cropping to land ownership and secured a coveted position on the railroad in his senior years. Gravestone reading ABRAM TURNER DIED 1919 AGE 72. Photo: Patricia Turner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/33904c5d-0bbe-4fea-94e4-5b0be3c097ec/Turner.horses.jpg Our Own Riches She ends with the story of Abram’s grandson, her father, Lloyd Turner and his much revered Old Hickory Farm which, for several decades, was a treasured local resource where children learned to ride horses and adults came to buy fresh eggs and vegetables right out of the garden. Following his death in the early 1990s, local environmentalists inaugurated and still maintain efforts to preserve the ecologically important trails he had introduced generations of horse-back riders to. Lloyd Turner, horseman and entrepreneur. Photo: Judy Tomkins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62282eb758e1995f8aad7d7e/d84bd500-88fb-49e0-b147-a9f28d40e12f/May2024FBCanniversarycongregation.png Our Own Riches We Came With Our Own Riches: How The Migrations of Black Folk Strengthened The Hamptons introduces the reader to people traditionally overlooked in the literature and history of the Hamptons. Told with Turner’s signature warmth, humor, and rigorous research, her insider’s knowledge of, and fondness for, the Hamptons’ richly varied African American enclaves bring this neglected history and ethnography to life. 100th Anniversary Celebration of the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton. 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