10 posts tagged with black by praemunire.
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces (NYT gift link)
John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged. [more inside]
Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar, Dies at 47
Her work looked at how race and power are experienced in America. In 2022, she filed a lawsuit saying that the appraisal of her home was undervalued because of bias. [more inside]
"we love an activist until they need something"
Shafiqah Hudson, who had worked in nonprofits but from 2014 on dedicated herself to Twitter activism--spotting and combating the "#endfathersday" scam ten years ago--died on February 15, at 46. [more inside]
"Vindication!"
"movement is what I wanted to capture on canvas."
Millions Saw His Paintings on TV. In the Art World, His Work Still Went Unnoticed: In his lifetime, Ernie Barnes was largely dismissed and ignored by the industry. He became an icon anyway. [more inside]
The Cotillion
Happy Fortunate People
"It didn’t occur to Hamish until then that you could end up in medical school against your will. For Hamish, getting into medical school was like releasing a breath he’d been holding his entire life. But once there, he found himself surrounded by people for whom it represented nothing more remarkable than the result of mild exertion; they accepted it as a blasé part of their destiny. It was like finding out they were hyperflexible or had the genes that made them able to discern the stink of their piss after eating asparagus. Maybe that’s the way it worked for some people. Maybe for them, there was an order to life, a logic that could be easily traversed, whereas for Hamish, life was like leaping from ice floe to ice floe, drifting for weeks or months or years with no land in sight." [more inside]
"What are these women going to look like?"
Kwame Brathwaite: Celebrity and the Everyday is an exhibit chronicling the work of Brathwaite, photographer of the "Black is Beautiful" aesthetic movement, which organized fashion shows in the early 60s of black women in natural hairstyles. [more inside]
1941: Chicago's South Side
In 1941, Farm Security Administration photographer Edwin Rosskam visited Chicago together with novelist Richard Wright and photographed the black residents of the segregated South Side. These images were later used in Wright's book Twelve Million Black Voices. (Many of those living on the South Side had taken part in the Great Migration from the South to the Northern industrial cities.)
"tantalizing for what they show, but also what they don’t show"
Cornell recently digitized its Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photographs, 645 images spanning the century from the Civil War to the 1960s. These images are largely of unknown individuals, such as an elegantly dressed African-American woman from the 1870s; a late nineteenth-century man with a cane; and three small children.
(Note that there is at least one image of a lynching and others of child slave labor.)
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