Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
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- Опубліковано 16 бер 2024
- In the 1920’s, Josephine Baker, a chorus girl from segregated America becomes an international superstar in Paris. Her "savage" dance brings modernity to the Europe of the Roaring Twenties. But over the years, on every trip "back home", she faces racism and segregation. This film tells the story of her political awakening.
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Thank you DW i am a senior black woman who grew up in the south i didn't know all of Josephine Baker's story now i know more thanks to you. She as a wonderful brave talented woman there should be a major movie about her story❤
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There's a wonderful movie by HBO from 1991 called The Josephine Baker Story. I highly recommend it. If can't download it, maybe you can find it in your local library. It really is worth the search.
Im a african woman and i can ONLY imagine what black people from This time went trougth just to survive, perform and make a living ... It very sad really.
@@mariaseidi4023 My parents grew up in the Jim Crow South. And as poet Langston Hughes put it, life was no crystal stair
That's a NEW FILM IDEA, FABULOUS
I saw. Josephine. Baker in. Cuba in 1966,when she was 60 years old,she had plenty of voice and charisma, it's something that I treasure for the rest of my life.
Interesting. I didn't know that Josephine Baker voyaged to Cuba.
Cuba was the epitome of the arts back in the 50’s it was the most important culturally speaking country of Latin America if you wanted it to be successful and known in Latin America you had to go to Cuba 🇨🇺 I know because I’m Cuban it’s a shame it hasn’t been that way for years now
Cuba was EVERYTHING 🔥🔥🔥
Racism is traumatizing. She was an insightful, sensitive and strong willed woman. I admire her courage and I hope she was proud of herself. RIP Sweet Lady.
Disgusting how the US treated her! The "land of the free", what a joke..
Right i hate bigotry
USA is one of the most evil countries that have ever existed. Yet the people act as though they are civilised when they aren't. They mistake advancement for civility.
Yes 'America'. A cruel hidden lie.
you are right.
It shouldn't be tolerated.
Thank you for this sensitive, nuanced story! Seldom do we get to hear of Josephine Baker´s journey as an African American woman in search of her freedom and finally fighting for that freedom for others.
So talented, brilliant, beautiful, and too often underappreciated.
Thanks to all who keep such women's stories alive.
As a dancer and student of history, Josephine Baker’s story is one that has always interested me. What I think is remarkable and yet sad is that she was able to break barriers in Europe that the U.S., to this day, pathetically remain. The disrespect, misogyny and racism has never gone away and the movement to eliminate diversity in education and hiring should be a red flag of what is to come. Thank you for posting her story! Remarkable lesson the US has failed to learn.
Thank you for sharing your perspective with us! :)
This remarkable woman should be taught in schools. Hero’s of the world war 2 should be told about.
@@lianefehrle9921 Unfortunately, in some American states that's probably no longer possible
She had a nice skin color. She wasn't really dark!🙄
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I live in France and experience racism here as a black woman so I think that people do not realise that racism is just different from one country to an other but remains racism.
Agree
I agree, it's different in Europe but it still exists. As a black woman living in Italy I have experienced it
Yes, but in Americacm racism was harder there, just like the Apartheid in South Africa
Talk to Mike’s Davis about racism, his passionate love to Juliette Greco was ruined because of racism.
Talk to Mike’s Davis about racism, his passionate love to Juliette Greco was ruined because of racism.
As a guide in Paris from 1998 until 2020 (COVID-19), I was so ready and happy to share my love for her... especially for the Black Americans willing to visit or see the places she went to, or for the White Americans who had no clue who she was. Never too late to learn, as long as it is done with respect and empathy.
As a French person, I am proud she felt at home in my country.
As a simple human being who travelled the world since the age of 9, I still hope we all could respect each other, and the Planet.
Thanks for sharing these anecdotes with us and our community!
She looked fantastic in whatever she wore!
An incredible, athletic, healthy, energetic, feminine beauty!
I loved this documentary. She was a natural. Never took dance or voice lessons I presume, but she nailed both. Born an artist.
What a wonderful woman! It's really sad, that she had to go all the way to another country, just to feel accepted by society. I've heard Josephine Baker's name being mentioned many times before, but I never really knew much about her history. Thanks! DW History and Culture. For bringing to my attention, all the great achievements of this phenomenal, Black Female Icon. She was a true inspiration to many of all races. That's really beautiful! RIP Josephine Baker! We'll always love you!
She performed in. Cuba,so many times,starting in 1951,cuban people adored her, including my aunt. Ofelia,who was a great fan of. Josephine,actually,my aunt,was the one who invited me in 1966,to see miss. Baker,in the national theater,it was her last visit to. Cuba. Lucky me!!! Josephine. Baker is in my mind forever and ever,something,that I treasure very,very much.
Thanks for sharing these special memories with us.
I always admire the self made life and success of this woman. What a life, what fierceness. She is in the Olympus of people who need to be admired.
I'm not sure why, But I am getting choked up over this. What an inspiring woman she was.
Thank you, DW, for keeping Josephine Baker’s story alive. She is and will always be an inspiration to many, then, now, and to come.
I've always been inspired by Josephine Baker. She was a classy woman. She still had a heart of gold and never forgot the poor
I've never seen a documentary of her until today. I heard about it and saw some pictures and short videos but this is the firs time I see a longer video about here. Dr Cornel West always mention her when talking about the black tradition. I knew she fought as a spy in WWII and my interest grew the more i knew about her. But this? this is masterpiece! These videos are amazing! Shut out to the people who gathered this material. Great job! Her moves where so mesmerizing. Her charisma, grace and sensuality something I've never seen coming. Had I been alive then I would have fall for her in a second. Beautiful black woman oh lala 😍😍😍
the struggle, ongoing for 170 years, is still not over...
It isn’t over, but, we have made great strides toward equality. Are you aware of this? I ask in all honesty.
@@kayhathaway6956 I don't think I would call the progress that has been made, great strides. perhaps just strides.
there is just too much gratuitous (by which I mean unthinking) racism.
@@kayhathaway6956 Are you white? I ask in all honesty.
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A lot of people don't realize the struggle is still ongoing in the USA. I left the USA 12 years ago. Didn't realize I was an American and not African-American until I arrived in España.
It felt so freeing to live in a country where I wasn't followed down store aisles or told by a real estate agent I'd feel "more comfortable" choosing a different neighborhood to live in.
This docu was very well-executed: the narrator's script and voice, the interviewees' insights, the vintage video footage, etc is top-shelf. New subscriber. Notification 🛎 is on. 🖤
We're so happy you liked it! All the best from Berlin 😊
Thank you verry much for such a detailed and lenghty documentary on Josephine.
I'm french and I knew some of but not at all what had happened to her when she went back to the US. It solves the mystery as to why it was said that a lot of americans had no idea who she was when in France everyone does.
Sadly France is actually quite a racist country but they practice colour blindness and also verry important, black americans are always treated differently from native blacks.
And also white people in French made sure for several centuries that black people in french colonies would stay out of European french soil.
Who know how things would have turned out if like americans they would have been forced to all live together on one land.
French history and its relationship to minorities and out side territory land is rather a complicated one so I can get into detail but at least I'm glad she was better treated here in those days and that she was given the opportunity to blossom in many areas of her life. I'm verry proud for the work she achieved, I also know that her living in France and being respected by white people like never before influenced positively and gave her strenght in fighting against what was happening in the USA.
She is now (partly) in the Panthéon where 83 important people of the french nation are burried and only 7 women, she's one of them.
Maybe one day France will recognize the black french important people who made history and who never made it to french school history books. France does have amazing black people.
Thank you for the additional info about Europe's history. I have read differently. Yes. Sad. America has not changed.
Thank you for sharing these reflections with our community. All the best!
Qu'est ce que tu racontes sur le racisme ? Arrête de raconter n'importe quoi ? J'ai vécu du racisme car j'étais blanc pour info et je n'ai jamais vu l'inverse, la France est un des pays les moins racistes au monde. Député noir au 19e siècle, Joséphine Baker etc
A great human being, la Baker deserves all our admiration❤
This documentary should be put in schools for kids to learn about
Thank you. Ms. Baker has always been my idol and an international artist like no other. How I admire her!
Such a respectful & factual narration, thank you sooo much for making this documentary - what an inspiring, beautiful soul & performer RIP
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First time hearing of her, it’s like everyday I learn more and more about our plight and heroes of the cause and I’m grateful I can count on DW to share. If I leave it up to American history I can’t imagine what my life would look like now.
I am thrilled you are finding such intellectual fulfillment on your education journey! You possess a natural curiosity and independence that sets you apart from others. Keep up the amazing work.
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She had a whole line of products with her likeness. I would love to collect some of those antiques but of course they are pricey! I love Baker and her cheery smile 💕
This upload is serendipitous. I've actually been thinking about her lately.
Thanks DW!
I'm from St. Louis. There's a Josephine Baker Blvd here. She should have been more appreciated here when she was alive by wt people like she is now!
This was absolutely wonderful thank you so much for this
Upon setting foot on French soil, on her first steps, she struggled with her luggage. A Frenchman told her (it may not be verbatim, but it is almost word for word)"Good morning madam, may l help you?" She later said that upon hearing him she was struck. In the USA she had to use separate toilet and in France she was a woman as her skin did not matter.
Even in WWII, many French, though thankful, expressed resentment at the segregation in the US army.
Outstanding woman and an equally impressive documentary... hers was really a life well lived with courage .. creativity .. compassion..thank you.
What impresses me most is her role in fighting for justice and her being an ambassador of peace and harmony among races. I also went to Monaco in May of 1967. More recently I got an article published in the Monaco Daily News. I was born in New Orleans and spent my early childhood in East Texas, where I saw the most disgusting and harsh racist ideologies being played out. We had to move to Hawaii to escape such ignorance because we were becoming too familiar with our black helpers. [Nelly Mae and her children.]. In Hawai'i we were in a white minority, where anti-white sentiment was strong.
DW does awesome Documentaries that can rival Amazon and Netflix!
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She was way ahead of her time🎉
She was indeed!
Brilliant. Bravo Encore 👏 as a second time refugee from South Africa, I love and revere this lady ☝️❤️✌️🌍🙏
She was a triple threat! VERY multitalented and kind✨🫶🏾
Isn't it awesome that she had that wonderful freedom and stardom in France.
What a excellent display of the frustration, inner pain and elaborate freedom.
Thanks for sharing this story. I was born in the 80s..but love to know about history. As this great artist..she empower her name her race. God bless her color.
Race seemed so important back then, but, those hips don't lie, she was experiencing freedom at last.
In her dance I see the art-deco bronze and ivory statuettes that are treasured today.
Josephine embodies the jazz age, the futurist art, the rhythms; it's nothing to do with her colour, it's the artifice of decadence.
Wow, what a story, what a Persona, this documentary left me in tears, I'm so moved.. what an amazing person she was, and her suffering did not turn into hate, I love that rainbow tribe, wow, what an inspiration!
She is a Hero who adopted children of all races.
Please, even her children knew they were there for publicity
Nice to hear...
This is soooooo amazing to me as a black woman what she went through I really want to give this amazing woman her thanks if it wasn't for her and so many other's we as a people wouldn't be where we are today ❤🙌🏽🙏🏼
PLEASE DO A VID OF THE GREAT, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. THE MAN WHO STARTED THE MOVEMENT OF ABOLISHING SLAVERY IN ENGLAND, THAT INSPIRED THE USA MOVEMENT.
WE MUST REMEMBER THESE PEOPLE⚘️
It is so good to hear this amazing story of Josephine Bakers life
Absolutely brilliant documentary. I have been looking for information on Joseph Baker for long time. Thank you for this.
Josephine was such an electrifing performer and a great humanitarian. She did so much for humanity and a very elegant and beautiful woman. It was so horrible the way she was treated by the land of her birth and how deep seeded the racism was in U.S. at that time which expoosed the hypocrisy of the so called "land of the free" in the way Mrs. Baker was treated after becoming a huge star in her own right. The story of her life needs to be told to all people who believe in justice, equality, and human rights.❤❤❤
This was beautiful and thank you
Love you Josephine, may your soul rest in peace
My family lived in mixed communities, and though we are white I'm the third generation to adore Miss Baker. My grandmotther was a ballet teacher and used many of Josephine's routines (and gave credit) for her revues. I think it would have amused her to see those middle class white American kids trying to copy her dances.
Thank you for sharing this!
At 9:32, she does a dance that I have seen both the supremes and Beyoncé do! 💯❤️✊🏾🙌🏾
Beautifully presented, the imagines are chilling. Josephine Baker a beautiful gifted woman. May you rest peacefully.
Was there ever a human being so sweet, loving and wonderful to exists as Josephine Baker? It is outstanding what a shining beacon she was
What an amazing life story! It is truly sad how badly she (and all black people in general) were treated in the US, in those days. Hopefully we as a nation are improving ourselves.
Beautiful history of Josephine Baker but unfortunately we have to struggle with racism, colorism, and narcissism which the isms have only one thing in common is Hatred among our own kind engages black on black "illegal" activities in our black communities, and it's encouraged by envy, and jealousy which it doesn't have to be. It's the choices they are making instead of wanting to venture out and work on themselves from within, and to help each other with love and dignity. All I can do is keep the faith, hope, and pray for them to better themselves instead of spewing hatred all over the place on one another and to themselves. We're suppose to keep Martin Luther Kings Dream alive, not to destroy his and our dreams.
She is remarkable fabulous woman if I was to ever be a celebrity, I would want to fight like Josephine not get caught up in the superficial of it all I'm only a fan to certain artists unless it means something I really feel like and I'm not speaking like a fan but with this album that Miss Beyoncé is coming out with i really feel like she has a fight that she has to fulfill with this country album. that's what makes me a fan some don't understand what it's about we're fighting with God he's leading us and it's bigger than us. Thank you, Miss Josephine.
Beautiful thank you for sharing 💐💃🏽
Very interesting.Thanks for sharing DW.👏👏👏👋
It's an amazing documentary 👏🏼
An absolute gem to the world. There never will be another one like Ms. Baker!
Incredible story, Anew Earth is truly here. Age of the Aquarius will even bring the world more love that we have always dreamed of. Thank you, thank you.
I would love To have met JOSI AND talked to here AND WATCHED HER PEFORM RIP JOSI
I truly enjoyed learning more about this wonderful,talented woman,who gave so much of herself to everyone .She was truly a hero of the people ALL PEOPLE.THANK YOU
It's important to say she was recruited in the Defence Services in 1939 even before the war started and had passed her basic nursing and pilot licences way before that too... She knew war against fascism was coming and she always knew what side she was going to be on even if Jacques Abtey had not approached her she would have served with the Red Cross and ended up a Free French Air Force Lieutenant all the same. And her first marriage with a Frenchman Jean Lion who was a Jew, the one which enabled her to gain French citizenship in 1937 also informed her about the growing anti-semitism in Europe which she also opposed. She may have been a bit utopist and cack-handed sometimes but she also took all the risks, did all the efforts available to her to follow her values and they were on the side of universal Humanism.
I read a biography about Josephine Baker about 25 years ago, written by one of her Rainbow Tribe children, he was white and European. I found her fascinating and beautiful, I loved her exotic dancing. She is a hero, I am very proud of her & as a white girl, born in Los Angeles, she makes me feel happy to be American. 🇺🇸
I looove her story... what a hero she was! ❤❤❤
As Mexican she inspired me
My late Singaporean grand dad studied in Paris and Brussels in the 1920s. He mixed with some rather elite circles and am absolutely sure he saw Josephine Baker more than once.
Thanks for sharing this personal anecdote with us and our community!
Great documentary on Josephine Baker
Black History Month is everyday ❤❤❤❤.😊
No lie was told here. 🖤 🖤 🖤
she was amazing
Thanks so much for this documentary about such an incredible woman! I've just been reading about Josephine Baker's critical work during WW2 in Damien Lewis's book, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy (also titled Flame of Resistance) which is fascinating, particularly as some of the important Second World War-era files concerning Josephine Baker's wartime service were only released to the public by French security services in 2020, more than seventy-five years after the events they pertain to. I only wished I'd learned about her just as much as I had known about women like Nancy Wake, codenamed The White Mouse by the Nazi regime!
Wonderful wonderful documentary. Best use of background historic footage to illustrate her story!
Omg thank u so much 4 this video.
11:01 Dude, NEVER touch a sister’s hair.
😂😂I know that’s right! The audacity.
I’m glad you included her work with the French resistance during WW2. I think a lot of people didn’t know she risked her life working with the resistance.
Vive La Baker!❤
Magnificent! Thank you.🤗
To be her must have been a lonely life. I saw the difference between America and Europe when it came to race. I never knew about racism until I was in fourth grade. I had to hide inside my black friends house because of my father being a southern white man. I asked my mother, who was German, why? She just said that it was that way in America and that I should be quite about it and not let my father know I had a black friend. The black community opened their friendship to my mother and me because we didn’t speak much English. Now it is a bit better in life.
Thank you for sharing these complicated memories with us and our community.
I never knew that she was black until today. What a talented and classy person.
Thank you for creating this factual historic record of Ms. Josephine Baker. I feel you've given her the justice she was due. I loved the video. Thank you.
Very happy to hear you enjoyed it ☺
Wonderful!Thank you. 🙂
Wonderful video thank you for sharing ❤
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hi - can you tell me where the quotes from josephine Baker are sourced from?
Thanks so much for posting
11:02 this is where the #donttouchmyhair began.
I never know that Josephine went through so much heart ache and racism from her own country 💔
It's strange that the French embraced her lovely soul ♥️ thank god the French did embrace her, otherwise she wouldn't have been such an icon, and they loved her so much.
I salute 🫡 👏🏿 🙌🏾 you ❤️
Absolutely 'sublime' content - just so well presented. Well done! Psyche aka Psyche Thompson UK 🌹
This was a phenomenal documentary. I was hoping to see more about how she got into movies and a bit about those. She sure did live life to the fullest.😊
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It is sad and somewhat ironic that America betray this playful and exuberant dancing bombshell
Beautiful documentary❤
Thank you for your videos
Does anyoneknow what performance the audio clip 39:40-40:08 is from?
Very inspiring! I loved it ❤❤❤
Very special documentary and biography of a woman, who inspired by her talent and ❤to the children of different cultures and religion 🕊🌹
Josephine Baker was definitely a trailblazer period! The poor treatment of her& all my people back then was just heartbreaking and disgusting in so many ways 😢💔😔 may God forever rest her beautiful soul she gone but will never be forgotten her story will live forever within us as black people
As a blackman I,disliked her 15 to 20mins into this doc and then I began to get it,she had to be bold,she had to be brave and experimentally, let herself glow.
She's an icon I am surprised isn't has popular has she ought to ❤❤❤
You know, I had an uncle who fought at Normandy, stayed in France for some time, and almost did not return because of the same Jim Crow segregation and discrimination that forced Josephine to seek her dreams in France.
Thank you for sharing this part of your family history with us and our community.
@@DWHistoryandCulture Richard Wright, a famous Black American writer, wrote an essay called "I Choose Exile" to explain why he chose to move to France and get away from American racism.
Why she was treated like that in her own country?what was she guilty of ?hard to believe this cruelty.instead of being proud of her achievements she was subjected to horrible abuse.