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- Learning From the Past: What Is Black Heritage'
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Abstract: Since the summer of 2020, the surge in mainstream media coverage of structural racial inequities that continue to plague the United States—particularly on, but not limited to, the brutal police murders of Black Americans—has prompted the preservation field to turn an introspective gaze toward its White-centered historical foundations, assumptions, and practices.1 Among the calls for change are demands for better representation of Black heritage sites and narratives; increased opportunities to include and uplift Black preservationists and their work; and a more nuanced understanding of Black identity and positionality to inform the preservation of Black historic sites. Preservation and the production of heritage are ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. To
Which is Annexed the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church in the United States of America, Containing a Narrative of the
Yellow Fever in the Year of our Lord 1793: With an Address to the People
of Colour in the United States by Richard Allen (review)-
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Abstract: Stained-glass window at the entrance of the Richard Allen Museum and Archive at Mother Bethel AME Church, featuring Allen’s likeness and images of the past and present buildings of Mother Bethel, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Charlette Caldwell.As both an autobiography of one of the first founders of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and a religious address to Black Americans, Richard Allen’s autobiography is a reflection of nineteenth-century Black life that reframes assumptions about Black religiosity and self-reliance. Grounded in this reframing, Allen’s autobiography functions as a narrative of personal and institutional history that is punctuated by religious hymns, amendments, and prayers. This work ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- Blake, or, The Huts of America by Martin Robison Delany (review)
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Abstract: Seen here is one of several large commemorative prints that marked the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment on Feb 3, 1870. The amendment declared that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This print depicts a celebratory parade held in Baltimore on May 19, 1870. Many prominent figures and scenes relating to the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment are portrayed as vignettes framing the parade. To the right are busts of distinguished Black men of the time: Martin Robinson Delany, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram R. Revels. On the left are busts of late Pennsylvania representative and champion of Black ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- A Voice from the South: By A Black Woman of the South by Anna Julia Cooper
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Abstract: A portrait of Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964), who was an activist, author, and educator. She argued that Black women’s rights must be central to education, self-determination, and racial uplift. Library of Congress, LC-B5-50626.As a scholar “resurrected” in the 1970s by a group of Black feminists who sought to “correct” recently established Black studies and women’s studies in universities, Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964), along with other nineteenth-century Black feminists, represents a tradition of Black women thriving in the face of both sexism and racism in the United States through their writing. Literature published by Black women like Cooper allowed for these authors to explore and critique national and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian
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Abstract: Despite the demands by the authors of The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, there was no separate or Black-led exhibition material about Black histories or achievements at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. It would not be until the 1960s when the first explicitly African American museum opened in the Chicago metropolitan area. The Ebony Museum of History and Art opened in 1961 (renamed in 1968 and known today as the DuSable Museum of African American History), founded by Margaret Burroughs in Bronzeville. Burroughs took inspiration from existing “ethnic museums” for other groups, and created a space that would be about Black histories, told by Black communities. In starting up ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (review)
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Abstract: James Weldon Johnson’s former residence, 187 West 135th Street (Apartment Building). Library of Congress, HABS NY, 31-NEYO,113-.The following excerpts are from James Weldon Johnson’s novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Johnson(1871–1938) was a writer, diplomat, activist, and lawyer, typically associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from his literary work in poetry and fiction, Johnson was an active participant and leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).1The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man was first published anonymously in 1912, which obscured whether the work was, in fact, fictional. It presents the “autobiography” of an unnamed narrator, born soon ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- “Heritage” in Color by Countee Cullen (review)
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Abstract: The Salem United Methodist Church in Harlem, New York, was the site of numerous events for central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Among them were the 1928 wedding of Countee Cullen and Yolande Du Bois, a noted occasion where many of New York’s well-to-do Black residents flaunted their best fashion, and the funeral of poet James Weldon Johnson in 1938. Since its founding in 1881 as a mission to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, the church had moved several times across Upper Manhattan. This building was purchased in 1923, when the congregation that had been located there, Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, moved to the Bronx. Such a trajectory speaks to the importance of recognizing how Black individuals ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- Negro Life in New York’s Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and
Interesting Section by Wallace Thurman (review)-
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Abstract: Photograph taken on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 135th Street in 1939. One of the primary commercial thoroughfares in Harlem was 135th Street, where Wallace Thurman, Countee Cullen, and James Weldon Johnson were active as writers based in the neighborhood. Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (“CCO 1.0 Dedication”).Wallace Thurman (1902–1934) was, like James Weldon Johnson, a prominent writer during the Harlem Renaissance.1 Thurman moved to Harlem in 1925, where he was active in publishing and editing journals that focused on questions of race and Black identity.2 Like many other figures in the Harlem Renaissance, Thurman’s sexuality has been widely debated.3 The following excerpts are ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- From Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir by Mamie Garvin
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Abstract: “Negroes used to be kept from certain places unless they worked there,” Mamie Garvin Fields recalled about the racial segregation that permeated her childhood hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. “The Battery was one of those places.” The Battery is a stretch of stately homes of the city’s White elite, lining the confluence of two rivers and forming a scenic esplanade. The area was typically off-limits to Black Charlestonians, except those who worked as street vendors or domestic helpers for the mansions (in Lemon Swamp, Mamie Garvin Fields shares her recollections of the temporary work she held as a seamstress in one such house, and the power dynamics she observed there based on racial and social differences). ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
- Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice: Voices from the Archives by Marc
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Abstract: Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, 1962.Designed for a site in the Giardini della Biennale at the far end of the Venice lagoon, the Nordic Pavilion countered the architectural approach of virtually all the national pavilions that preceded or followed it. Rather than being conceived as a set of opaque exhibition rooms—still the norm today—two sides of the pavilion were walled completely with floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors. The resulting visual permeability welcomed the outside in and extended the inside out. As an extreme gesture Sverre Fehn, the pavilion’s designer, retained a number of existing trees by sheltering them within the walls of the pavilion (Figure 2). Unlike the parade ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
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