The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times led by Nikole Hannah-Jones, observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are. Read interactive version online or you can download a pdf of the entire August 18 New York Times Magazine here: https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf
This book came out of conference in Florence, Italy that I was honored to be a part of. It is an incredible resource.
Introduction: Women and Migration[s] Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson
Part One: Imagining Family and Migration 11
Between Self and Memory Ellyn Toscano
Fragments of Memory: Writing the Migrant’s Story Anna Arabindan-Kesson
A Congolese Woman’s Life in Europe: A Postcolonial Diptych of Migration Sandrine Colard
Migrations Kathy Engel
Part Two: Mobility and Migration
Carrying Memory Marianne Hirsch
Making Through Motion Wangechi Mutu
Strange Set of Circumstances: White Artistic Migration and Crazy Quilt Karen Finley
Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age Goddess Cheryl A. Wall
Part Three: Understanding Pathways
Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, Water Sama Alshaibi
My Baby Saved My Life: Migration and Motherhood in an American High School Jessica Ingram
Visualizing Displacement Above The Fold Lorie Novak
Unveiling Violence: Gender and Migration in the Discourse of Right-Wing Populism Debora Spini
A Different Lens Maaza Mengiste
Reinventing the Spaces Within: The Early Images of Artist Lalla Essaydi Isolde Brielmaier
Swimming with E. C. Kellie Jones
Part Four: Reclaiming Our Time
Kinship, the Middle Passage, and the Origins of Racial Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan
Black Women’s Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the ‘Good’ White Liberal Agenda Bettina L. Love
Filipina Stories: Gabriela NY and Justice for Mary Jane Veloso Editha Mesina
Women & Migrations: African Fashion’s Global Takeover Allana Finley
What Would It Mean to Sing A Black Girl’s Song?: A Brief Statement on the Reality of Anti-Black Girl Terror Treva B. Lindsey
Part Five: Situated at the Edge
Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood Pamela Newkirk
Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and Iconicity Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand Tour Sirpa Salenius
Making Latinx Art: Juana Valdes at the Crossroads of Latinx and Latin American Art Arlene Dávila
Moving Mountains: Harriet Hosmer’s Nineteenth-Century Italian Migration to Become the First Professional Woman Sculptor Patricia Cronin
Part Six: Transit, Transiting, and Transition
Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings Roshini Kempadoo
Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar World Joan Morgan
Supershero Amrita Simla, Partitioned Once, Migrated Twice Sarah K. Khan
Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in Displacement Gayatri Gopinath
The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race in Ming Wong’s Life of Imitation Kalia Brooks Nelson
Part Seven: The World is Ours, Too
The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart Francille Rusan Wilson
‘The World is Ours, Too’: Millennial Women and the New Black Travel Movement Tiffany M. Gill
Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo’s Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890–1900 Paulette Young
‘I Don’t Pay Those Borders No Mind At All’: Audley E. Moore (‘Queen Mother’ Moore) – Grassroots Global Traveler and Activist Sharon Harley
Löis Mailou Jones in the World Cheryl Finley
Part Eight: Emotional Cartography: Tracing the Personal
The Ones Who Leave… the Ones Who Are Left: Guyanese Migration Story Grace Aneiza Ali
The Acton Photograph Archive: Between Representation and Re-Interpretation Alessandra Capodacqua
Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works M. Neelika Jayawardane
Transnational Minor Literature: Cristina Ali Farah’s Somali Italian Stories Alessandra Di Maio
Seizing Control of the Narrative Misan Sagay
Migration as a Woman’s Right: Stories from Comparative and Transnational Slavery Histories in the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds Gunja SenGupta
The Sacred Migration of Sister Gertrude Morgan Imani Uzuri
Now that you have seen the table of contents, you will really want the free download
The Radical Legacy of Hannah Höch, One of the Only Female Dadaists by Alina Cohen, artsy.net
Photomontages were the original remix. In the early 20th century, a group of European artists spliced together images they’d found in popular media, creating singular artworks via a strategy of sampling. The results show both individual statements by their makers and cross-sections of visual culture from a particular historical moment. While these creators called their movement by the nonsense word “Dada” (“DADA, as for it, it smells of nothing, it is nothing, nothing, nothing,” said artist Francis Picabia), their strange new artworks offered significant polemical ideas about gender, politics, and creativity during a particularly tumultuous era in Western history. ….
Hannah Höch, one of the few female members recognized by the movement, offered a refreshing antithesis to such macho constructions. Her own photomontages offer kaleidoscopic visions of German culture during the interwar era, often from a distinctly queer, feminist perspective. READ entire article.
Portraiture existed long before photography was invented. And for more than a dozen years after photography’s invention, it was practically impossible to make a photographic portrait: the required exposure times were too long. But the two eventually came together, and now their pairing seems so natural that it’s as though photography was invented for making portraits…. read more
Carte de visite of Sojourner Truth, around 1864.CreditFrom the American Antiquarian Society
Too often as we put our blogs together we think about what we like personally but don’t really give a lot of thought to how others may view the same pages. In the end, the goal is to have others to be able to read our blogs and enjoy them, but are we making small mistakes that could be making it difficult for others to enjoy our blogs? Here are a few thoughts from some of our bloggers on things that often make it difficult for them to access blogs and websites.
“Growing up in Long Island during the 1950s and 60s, Meryl Meisler had the typical suburban life: girl Scouts, ballet and tap dance lessons, and prom. But while she loved her family and friends, she didn’t quite fit in. She quickly realized she didn’t want to be a housewife, teacher, nurse, or a secretary—pretty much the only options available to young women at that time…” [read more]
