VIDEO: Dave the Potter Excerpt: Field Cotton
Video below: “Honoring the history and creativity of an exceptional enslaved potter and poet, David Drake, through performance and poetry.” Directed by: Dr. Lynnette Young Overby with Dr. P. Gabrielle...
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DIGITAL: Digital Aponte – Writing, Painting, and Making Freedom in the...
Ada Ferrer, Linda Rodriguez launch Digital Aponte: Vicente Escobar, Portrait of José Jackes Quiroga, n.d., oil on canvas “Welcome to Digital Aponte, a site dedicated to the life and work of José...
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BLOGROLL: Cotard and Dubois Create Comic on Haitian Revolution
Shared on Repeating Islands from a tweet by Kaiama L. Glover: “This item, posted by Kaiama L. Glover on Twitter yesterday (mèsi anpil!), comes in just in time for our discussion of Alejo Carpentier’s...
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BLOGROLL: Katz on Mary Jones, Gender, Slavery, and TransHistory | OutHistory
Jonathan Ned Katz analyzes the case of Mary Jones/Peter Sewally a sex worker of African descent arrested in 1830s New York: “Sewally’s court testimony of 1836 provides us the earliest American evidence...
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DIGITAL/SOURCE: Katz and Nyong’o Exhibit on Mary Jones and Print Culture |...
Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o analyze the print material generated by the case of Mary Jones/Peter Sewally: “Katz and Nyong’o present “Visualizing the Man-Monster,” an original on-line exhibit...
View ArticleBLOGROLL/RESOURCE: Handler and Tuite on Louisiana Native Guards Photo...
Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr. describe the fraudulent identification of a Civil War photograph of United States Colored Troops as members of the Confederate army’s First Louisiana Native...
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BLOGROLL: Hopkinson on Sugar, Caribbean Slavery and Kara Walker’s Subtlety
In an excerpt from her new book, Natalie Hopkinson explores histories of gendered violence in Caribbean and Atlantic wide histories of slavery, sugar through Kara Walker’s Subtlety: “We have come to...
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NEWS/ART: Kara Walker’s Katastwóf Karavan
Items related to Kara Walker’s Katastwóf Karavan, on display February 2018 during Prospect.4 in New Orleans. Siddhartha Mitter (Village Voice) – Carnival of the Grotesque: Kara Walker’s Insistent...
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ART: Diop’s Project Diaspora
Omar Viktor Diop’s Project Diaspora (curatorial Statement by Raquel Wilson): “Starting his research during a four month residency in Màlaga, Spain, where he was immersed in the reality of being a...
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Mar 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the...
Today is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The 2019 theme is “Remember Slavery: The Power of the Arts for Justice” Since the time of the...
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