Sonic Zora in Florida
...of these big, colorful and complex songs of the self, Black folks make their own time while the wheels keep turning round and round. About the Author Daphne A. Brooks is...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...ceremonies of a religious, spiritual, or secular nature included music, dance, and dramatic performances as well as sculptures and other visual art objects. In one sense, art was the expressive...
Brushes with War
...Virginia pine tree, ready to kill or be killed. Homer's "very first picture in oils," the painting was completed in New York after his initial trip to the front during...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...also typical of southern quilts of the era in that the blocks are set solidly within a grid of wide fabric strips, called "sashing." She quilted around the edges of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...minute 29:33. Several major research projects have come to the fore around the Georgetown history. First, the Georgetown Slavery Archive (slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu, herein abbreviated GSA) is a repository of archival materials...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...sign highlights Spanish colonial accounts, not African American history. Slaves were sold in and around the public market. While most slave sales in pre-Civil War St. Augustine took place at...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...wicker basket being passed around. I think it's safe to say nobody here's gonna be splitting the atom, Marty."12Cary Joji Fukunaga, "The Locked Room," True Detective (HBO, January 12, 2014),...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Ghana, Nigeria, and Dahomey (now part of Benin) to investigate multiple strands of cultural heritage on the African continent.1Biggers published a book after his trip titled Ananse: the Web of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the States respectively, or to the people." The claims of state sovereignty have a long history in the US South, originating largely around questions regarding black people and their rights...