Founded 2010

This Blog serves as an On-line Supplemental Resource for ~ AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITIONS ~ study of the Africana material culture.
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RESEARCH LINKS

            

MATERIAL CULTURE RESEARCH LINKS
Below are links to all things African Americana material culture - and/or related links. Use this page to gather images and complete assignments, or to do personal study beyond the perimeters of this course. There is much to be learned, more than can ever be covered in a semester -- a lifetime even! But HERE is definitely a good place to start. The scholarship is self-improvement by expanding your range of knowledge. It should be a lifelong vocation... and will certainly impact your final grade for LIFE if not this course. Happy hunting!
(AA = African American) – Also: This database is for study and research only. Some of the images here are copyrighted material. Please confer with the source directly for any use other than that expressed by this site.

Background Article for this Course:
The Traditional Arts and Crafts of African-Americans Across Five Centuries

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AFRICAN TRADITIONS:


AFRICAN-AMERICAN IMAGE BANKS:


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BASKET MAKING: 



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CINEMATOGRAPHY:

CIVIL WAR / MILITARY:

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    EPHEMERA, TOYS, COMMERCIAL IMAGES: 

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    FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY: 

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    HISTORY: 
    Abolitionist Olaudah Equiano former slave, 
    seaman, writer c1745 - 1779


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    MUSEUM /  RESEARCH:


    METALWORK:  


    "Couple with a Cadillac"  1932, 
    by noted Harlem photographer James Van der Zee


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    PHOTOGRAPHERS:

    POTTERY

    Quilt by Katie (Mama) Franklin 1862 ~ 1965
    Professor Nichol's great-great-grandmother, 
    a Cherokee Indian, whose family migrated 
    from North Carolina to Oklahoma, 
    on the Trail of Tears around 1865...

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    QUILT REFERENCES: 


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    SLAVERY:


    • Portrait (detail) of James Pennington,  from A Tribute for
      the Negro. Wilson Armistead. 1848. BHS Collections
      In Pursuit of Freedom
      This major, long-term exhibit explores the lesser-known activists of Brooklyn’s anti-slavery movement -- Brooklynites, black and white -- who shaped their community, city, and nation with a revolutionary vision of freedom and equality. The exhibit is part of the groundbreaking In Pursuit of Freedom public history project that features new research on Brooklyn's abolition movement in partnership with Weeksville Heritage Center and Irondale Ensemble Project.

      To learn more about the exhibition and partner project, please visit the In Pursuit of Freedom website.
    In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated). > click here to read the letter




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    TEXTILES (African):
      Quilt by, Elizabeth Keckly the freed slave who became dressmaker to


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      UNDERGROUND RAILROAD:

      Adinkra Cloth
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      Woodworkers:

      FINE & FOLK ARTISTS AND RESOURCES:
      From the Archives of the Experimental Printmaking Institute 
      "Bird Man" by David Driskell 2010 12"x16" Relief/Serigraph, 
      by Master Printer: Curlee Raven
      INSTITUTIONS:



      FOLK ARTISTS:

      NEWS, GENERAL INFORMATION & HISTORY RELATED LINKS:

      LEFT: Rectangular gable-roofed house form, also called
      the "shotgun house" traditional African Architecture.
      Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.)

      African American Registry 
      Black History 365
      Black Abolitionists and the end of the transatlantic slave trade
      Black Victorians
      Emancipation Proclamation Is Signed!
      The Forgotten Victorians
      International Slavery Museum 
       PAN-African News Wire
      Peoples World
      Seneca Village

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