Josephine Baker
SEI-Q "Performer" Singer / Dancer · American-French · 20th c.American-born French singer and dancer (1906–1975). Becoming a world star as a Black dancer in 1920s Paris, she defined an era. She served as a French Resistance spy during World War II and was active in the US civil rights movement. Adopting 12 children from different countries as the "Rainbow Tribe" — one of the most extraordinary personal statements about racial equality.
Leading Function-Si-p (Sensibility & Subtlety)
The banana skirt and semi-nude dance — extraordinary obsession with costume, lighting, and choreography details, completely renewing the costume for each performance. Centre stage at the Folies Bergère.
Creative Function+Fe-c (Elation & Revelation)
When Baker smiled at someone in the audience, the whole venue naturally smiled back — mutual explosion of joy unchanged throughout her life. At the 50th anniversary Paris concert (1975), at age 74, the roar on opening night.
Vulnerable Function 1-Te-p weak (Optimization & Ingenuity)
Weak -Te-p: purchasing Château des Milandes and forcibly executing the "Rainbow Tribe" project of adopting children from 12 countries without a financial plan — resulting in bankruptcy in 1968.
Vulnerable Function 2+Ni-c weak (Future & Challenge)
Weak +Ni-c: having the vision of "a place where children of the world live together" but possessing zero staged plans for its realisation. "I do it because I want to, that's all."
Quadra / Temperament / Club
Quadra: Anti-Gamma Quadra (Utopia) — Baker showed beauty, love, and a mixed-race community as counter-values against racial discrimination as the γ "order of competition and domination."
Temperament: Receptive-Adaptive temperament: a Black woman from Missouri becoming the biggest star in Paris — overcoming poverty, racial discrimination, and war through "dancing right here, right now."
Club: Socialite Club: habitually throwing open her dressing room after performances and inviting everyone in for conversations — "plunging into the crowd" as the core of her social life.
Worldview & Attitude
"The racial discrimination and injustice of the present world exist" — the direct statement of present reality. The ないもの (a world without racial discrimination) is not proclaimed.
Attitude toward Change: Executing mixed-race family creation and anti-discrimination activism as a realistic plan — pointing the direction; realisation left to successors.