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  • Elusive Archives

    Material Culture in Formation

    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the ... Leer más

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  • Scattered and Fugitive Things

    How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

    de Laura Helton ...
    Series series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
    Winner: St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Arline Custer Memorial Book AwardHonorable Mention: Lawrence W. Levine Award, S-USIH Annual Book PrizeFinalist: ASALH Book Prize for Best New Book in African American History and CultureShortlisted: Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize, MLA Prize for a First BookDuri... ... Leer más

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  • Black Studies on 135th Street

    The Founding and Future of the Schomburg Collection

    A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black StudiesIn 1926, the Afro–Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of four thousand books, pamphlets, papers, and prints arrived at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library. The collection contained works in many languages and formats, ... Leer más

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    Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in ... Leer más

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Leer más

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  • Miss Anne in Harlem

    The White Women of the Black Renaissance

    de Carla Kaplan ...
    Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance insiders.The 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, and passion—with Harlem at the epicenter. White men could go uptown to see jazz and modern dance, but women who embraced ... Leer más

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edición de Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Leer más

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  • Zora Neale Hurston

    A Life in Letters

    “ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the ... Leer más

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  • Denmark Vesey’s Garden

    Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

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  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    de Wade Graham ...
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  • The Black Box

    Writing the Race

    **A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its ... Leer más

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  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

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    Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. “When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston’s palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; ... Leer más

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