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Imaging Africans and African
Americans in the United States | K. Dian Kriz List 410; 863-7286;  K_Kriz@brown.edu
Office hours: Thurdays, 2-4:30 pm and by appt |
This course examines forms of visual culture-paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture-that participate in the formation of racial, social and national identity in the US from c. 1776 until 1930. Focuses on how visual culture figured African and African Americans in their interrelationships with each other and with other social groups in the U.S. |
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| 7 Sept: | Introduction |
| 14 Sept : | The matter of blackness and whiteness Ms. Rosemary Cullen, head special collections librarian at the John Hay Library, will also speak to us about the Brown collection of African American sheet music and other relevant printed sources at the Hay. Readings: • Morrison, Toni, “Black Matter(s),” in Richter, David, ed., Falling into Theory , pp. 310-22. Copies available in the HA 117 box which is next to the wall by my library carrel, #A52 (on A level of the ROCK). • Boime, Albert, The Art of Exclusion , pp. 1-13. • Dyer, Richard, White , pp.1-40 |
| 21 Sept. : | Imprinting Africans
and African Americans: Readings: • Lacey, Barbara, “Visual Images of Blacks in Early American
Imprints,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3 rd series, 53:1 (January 1996),
pp. 137-180. Available • Joanne Melish, Disowning Slavery, pp. 163-209. • Marcus Wood, Blind Memory , pp. 78-142. |
| 28 Sept : | Representing the
black body in art and art history Reading: • Pinder, Kymberly, “Black Representation and Western Survey
Textbook,” Art Bulletin 81:3 (Sept. 1999), pp. 553-38. Available • Collins, Lisa Gail, The History of Art: African-American Women Artists Engage the Past , pp. 36-63 • Hills, Patricia, “Painting Race: Eastman Johnson's Pictures of Slaves, Ex-slaves and Freemen,” from Teresa Carbone and Patricia Hills , eds., Eastman Johnson: Painting America , pp. 121-66. |
| 5 Oct : | Memorializing Slavery
and Emancipation in Public Sculpture Readings: • Savage, Kirk, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves , pp. 21-88. • Hatt, Michael, “”Making a Man of Him': Masculinity and
the Black Body in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Sculpture,” Oxford
Art Journal 15:1 (1992): 21-35. Available |
| 12 Oct : | Blacking up, identity, and minstrelsy: views
from literature, history and art history Class meeting at the John Hay Library on Prospect Street (meet in foyer) Profs. Coppelia Kahn (English) and Susan Smulyan (American Civilization) will talk with us about this topic. We'll use printed resources at the Hay for the class. Readings : • Kahn, Coppelia , “ Forbidden Mixtures: Shakespeare in Blackface Minstrelsy, 1844,” manuscript article, copies in HA 117 box by my Carrel, A 52 at the ROCK. • Lott, Eric, Love and Theft , pp. 15-62. |
| 19 Oct.: | Photography: private
and public (re)productions of black and white bodies Readings: • Smith, Shawn Michelle, Photography on the Color Line , pp. 43-145. (Textbook, not in course packet) • Dyer, R., White , pp. 82-142. |
| 26 Oct : | Harlem Renaissance
and muralism (including a Rhode Island post office mural, The
Activities of the Narragansett Planters ) : Readings: • Please look at and read all the webpages on the website for the Wakefield mural my graduate practicum produced last semester. I'll furnish you with the url at least a week before this class. • Locke, Alain, “Enter the New Negro,” Survey Graphic Harlem
Number (March 1925). Available • George Schuyler, "The Negro Art Hokum," The
Nation 122 ( June 16, 1926 ): 662–3. Available • Hughes, Langston, "The Negro Artist and the Racial
Mountain," Nation , Vol. CXXII (June 16-23, 1926). Available • Powell, Richard, “Re/Birth of a Nation,” in Rhapsodies in Black , pp.14-33. • Gates, Henry Louis, “ Harlem on My Mind,” in Rhapsodies in Black , pp. 160-7. |
| 2 Nov.: | African Americans
in early 20 th century film Prof. Joshua Stenger, specialist in film, Wheaton College will visit. Readings : To be announced |
| 9 Nov.: | Presentations |
| 16 Nov. : | Presentations |
| 23 Nov. : | No class, Thanksgiving |
| 30 Nov. : | Presentations |
| 9 Dec. : | Research papers due, 5 pm , in box marked HA 117 placed in print closet, next to my office, List 410 . |
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Image
Resources. A guide to locating image resources at Brown and on the
web. Accunet/AP Photo Archive.
An electronic library containing the Associated Press' current photos and
also a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative
library. Includes audio.
America:
History and Life.
1954-present;
article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history
and culture of the United States and Canada. AMICA
Library.
A growing image collection of more than 100,000 works of art digitized by
museums in the United States, Canada, and Britain, representing objects
from all cultures and time periods. Includes paintings, sculptures, drawings,
prints, photographs, decorative art, and utilitarian objects.Anita.The Art Slide Library catalog
of slides and photographs.Anthropological
Literature. 1984-present; indexes articles on anthropology and archaeology,
including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religion. Art
Abstracts. 1984-present; indexes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins,
exhibition listings, and interviews in 250 key international English-language
arts publications. Art
Index Retrospective.
1929-1984; cumulates citations from volumes 1-32 of the printed Art Index.
In addition to art and architecture, topics covered include advertising,
antiques, archaeology, crafts, industrial design, motion pictures, museology,
photography, and television.Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
1988-present;
source for information in all arts and humanities disciplines. Useful for retrieving
recent articles which cite a known earlier article. Includes some full text.Bibliography
of the History of Art. 1973-present; covers
European and American art from
late antiquity to the present. The Great
American History Fact Finder (xreferplus).Grove Dictionary of Art
Online. Prehistory to the present; a comprehensive full-text online reference
resource for Art History. Includes some full text.
Historical Abstracts. 1977-present;
article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on the history of
the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes the U. S. and CanadaHumanities
Abstracts. February 1984-present; more than 300 periodicals in archaeology,
art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing
arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Includes some
full text.IIBP
Full Text (International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text).
1910 - present; multi-disciplinary, international database that includes
current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over
150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the
United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Full text coverage of 31 core Black
Studies periodicals (1998 forward)is also included. International
Repertory of the History of Art.
1975-1989;Includes abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and
American art and architecture. Josiah.
Current; Brown University's online library catalog, provides access to information
about books, periodicals, and other materials owned by the Brown libraries. African- American Review
Art
History
Bibliography of the
History of Art
Journal of Black Studies
(JSTOR)
Journal of Modern History
(JSTOR)
Journal of Negro History
(JSTOR) 1916-1996
Journal of
Social History
Many more databases, electronic journals, and internet search services can be
found on the Library's e-resources
web page.
African-American
Sheet Music
Brown University Library
American Memory at the Library of Congress
Uncle
Tom's Cabin and American Culture
University of Virginia
African-American
Odyssey
American Memory at the Library of Congress
African-American
Perspectives
American Memory at the Library of Congress
African-American
Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
American Memory at the Library of Congress
African-American
Mosaic: Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
Library of Congress
By
Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
American Memory at the Library of Congress
Selected
Civil War Photographs
American Memory at the Library
of Congress
America's first Look
into the Camera: Daguerrotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864
American Memory at the Library
of Congress
America from the Great
Depression
to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
American Memory at the Library
of Congress
William
P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
American Memory at the Library of Congress
Creative
Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten 1932-1965
American Memory at the Library of Congress
By
the People For the People: Posters from the WPA 1936-1945
American Memory at the Library of Congress
Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture Finding Aids
New York Public Library
Images
of African-Americans from the Nineteenth Century
The Digital Schomburg, New York Public Library
Archives
of African American Music & Culture
Indiana University
African-American History
and Culture
Smithsonian Institution
Amistad Research Center
Tulane University
(currently broken link but I don't want to remove)
California African American Museum
Arts of
Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum for African Art
New York
African-American
Art on the Internet
B. Davis Schwartz Memoral Library, Long Island University
Perspectives
in American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance
Paul Rueben, California State University
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Selected
bibliography for African-American Sheet Music. A part of Brown's digital project.African-American
Sheet Music 1850-1920. Includes many illustrated works. A particular focus
of the project is on images of African-Americans.Essential
References in the section on African-American Literature in the Research
Guide to the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
at the John Hay
Library. Each title listed includes a link to the Josiah record for that title. |
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