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Queloides/Keloids: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art
"When I Am Not Here, Estoy Alla" by Maria Magdalena Campos pons Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente and Elio Rodríguez Valdés Queloides/Keloids “is an art exhibit that seeks to contribute to current...
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Munro on Rhythm in the African Diaspora
Martin Munro, Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas. Berkley: University of California Press, 2010 Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book’s...
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BOOK: Wallace and Smith on Early Photography and African American Identity
Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith, eds. Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. via Duke University...
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BOOK: Sharpe on the Monstrous Intimacies of Slavery
Christina Sharpe, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Duke University Press Books, 2010. Description from Duke University Press: “Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual...
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ESSAY: Salgado on Art in Schomburg’s Black Atlantic
César A. Salgado | The Visual Arts in Arturo A. Schomburg’s Black Atlantic: “…Although there is no date on the prospectus, Schomburg’s book project on Negro Painters was part of the third and last...
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Vincent Harding (1931-2014) | Sam Greenlee (1930-2014)
Vincent Harding passed away on May 19, 2014. From the NYT: Vincent Harding, a historian, author and activist who wrote one of the most polarizing speeches ever given by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King...
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Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
Photo: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File Maya Angelou died at age 86. From NYT: Maya Angelou, whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — a lyrical, unsparing account of her...
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CFP: José Antonio Aponte and His World (NYU)
CFP: José Antonio Aponte and His World: Writing, Painting, and Making Freedom in the African Diaspora Date: May 8-9, 2015 Location: New York University, King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square...
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James on Louis Rigaud’s “Portrait of a Revolutionary”| Yale Alumni Magazine
Erica Moiah James on Louis Rigaud’s portrait of Toussaint Louverture: “Many images of Toussaint Louverture exist, but none were produced during his lifetime. The artist Louis Rigaud completed the...
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PODCAST: Finley on “Untitled, 1969” by Malcolm Bailey | Whitney Museum of...
Cheryl Finley, scholar, addresses Untitled, 1969, 1969 by Malcolm Bailey (b.1947) LISTEN HERE: August 26, 2015, Cheryl Finley on Untitled, 1969 by Malcolm Bailey | Whitney Museum of American Art Named...
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ARTICLE: Pryor on the Etymology of ‘Nigger’ in the Antebellum North
Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Effect of John Brown’s invasion at the South (Nov. 19, 1859).” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 22, 2016....
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EDITED: Saucier and Woods on Maroonage, Antiblackness, and Black Studies
P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods, eds. On Marroonage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 2015. via Africa World Press: “On Marronage: Ethical...
View ArticleVIDEO: 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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