Woven History through African-American Women Traditions by

Take This Hammer

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 02:11:40 UTC

The societal perception of fear towards African-Americans is through white society's own insecurities and trepidation explained by James Baldwin.

The Creative Interpretation of Spirituals

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 03:15:10 UTC

A piece within the act "Revelation" is about the culture of faith and African-Americans. The piece "Wade in the Water" a historical and complementary spiritual dance interpretation.

Choreographed Alvin Ailey

Spirituality and Women

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 04:12:31 UTC

A piece within the act "Revelation" is about the culture of faith and African-American women.

Choreographed by Alvin Ailey

Harlem Renaissance Art

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 04:26:10 UTC

The piece called "Cafe" by a Harlem Renaissance artist William N. Johnson.

Women and her slave narratives:

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 04:38:57 UTC

These literary works are about the question of existence the African-American woman. The critique of one's body and art are some of the images of what African-American women their roles were.

Harlem Renaissance Art

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 04:55:10 UTC

The piece called "The Birth of Blues" by a Harlem Renaissance painter, illustrator and graphic designer-- Aaron Douglas

Evolution of the Exhibitionism of the African-American woman's body

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 05:15:44 UTC

In this illustration is the depiction of Saarjite "Sarah" Baartman. A South African woman who was enslaved and was put on public exhibited throughout Europe in 1810 to her early death in 1815 at the age of 26.

Saarjite Baartman

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The Aftermath of the historical legacy

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 06:57:19 UTC

The poem "To be Black and a Woman and Alive" is the one's interpetation the degradation and sexualization of African-American women in the face of one's community and others. The pressures of the expectations that is internalized for a young woman. Performed by Crystal Valentine & Aaliyah Jihad at the 2015 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational

1920s to Late 1930s

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 07:31:53 UTC

The Harlem Renaissance Era: It was the revolutionized phenomenon of the rendition cultural traditions that was layered and reformed into a new artistic movement and period.

The Phenomenon of Colorism

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 07:53:09 UTC

Colorism, a systemic and institutionalized form of prejudice against those of a type of complexion within one's community. Dating back to the Slave Trade to complementary times.

Harlem Renaissance Blues Singers

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 15:46:23 UTC

In this video, a Blues singer named Bessie Smith preforming her song "Young Woman Blues." It can be inferred that purpose of this song is a woman who was left by her partner after what it seems like she was falling for him. However, despite the grief she has to move on.

Harlem Renaissance Blues Singers

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 15:57:54 UTC

In this video, a Blues singer named Billie Holiday preforming "Strange Fruit" her iconic social critique about the public lynchings in the South and across America, essentially.

The Atlantic Slave Trade: 15th century to late 1700s

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 16:15:55 UTC

The route of import of West African Slaves as commercial goods within North, South Americas, Caribbean and Europe.

Slave Narratives: The disquisition of Slavery and Freedom c.1746-1865

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 16:35:57 UTC

The beginning of written recordings about experiences of facing the systemic oppression of slavery. This was considered to be revolutionary to be first and or second generation African-American to write and speak against this system.

Harriet Ann Jacobs ( 1813-1897)

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 16:41:45 UTC

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs, an author and activist who was born in slavery in North Carolina however she fought her way to freedom. A prolific literary work about slavery through a woman's eyes about the broader context about the mental and psychical degradation.

Ain't I a Woman?

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 18:11:39 UTC

Ain't I a Woman, a speech delivered by Sojourner Truth, who was a feminist, abolitionist, oral author. She delivered this speech at the Women Conference in Akron, 1851, which was reported in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, of June 21, 1851.

Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)

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An early works of recorded experience about the Slave Trade and different areas of travel that slaves had to go through. Equiano retells his ordeal about being a son of high official in his Ibo community (Nigeria) to the kidnapping of himself and his sister, to the ports amongst the Caribbean to a brief staying in Northern America to servtitude in England. Later, in his life- he became free then became an author, sailor, advocate for civil rights of slaves as owned English gentleman.

Phyllis Wheatley (~1753-1784)

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 20:58:47 UTC

A collective writer and author similar to Equiano, Phyllis Wheatley was privileged to gain experience international travel as writer in London. She was considered to be a literary prodigy after she had to prove herself among a panel of men reciting the early literary works of American and European author with the underlying insight that African-Americans were capable of such quality. She was writer, activist, and poet and Massachusetts' national literary icon.

Sojourner Truth (1799-1883)

tavi_francis — 2015-12-12 21:23:33 UTC

Sojourner Truth, was prolific abolitionist and feminist that was once a slave who was emancipated who traveled across the country to deliver speeches about women's and slave's civil rights. In the speeches highlighted that African-American women rights are forgotten in the greater context of these movements. Although, she was an illiterate this did not over shadow her impact in American history.

Folk Tale and Vernacular Traditions

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W.E.B DuBois (1868-1963)

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One of the first historian to begin the foundation of African-American history, culture, and language.

The Black Arts Movement Era (1960-1975)

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The Political and Advocacy through creative works, like visual arts, dance, theater, music and the advocacy movement for civil rights.

Criticisms of the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

tavi_francis — 2015-12-13 06:23:25 UTC

Within this piece, that reflects the dilemmas of the what women and girls dealt with in slavery. This was written by Sonia Sedano Vivanco.

Art about African-American women's "role" in society

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These are depictions of African-American women throughout various periods.

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"I am that I am"- Sojourner Truth

A Biblical reference to Exodus 3:14 (KJV)

Virginian Luxeries

tavi_francis — 2015-12-13 06:40:20 UTC

This 1825 oil painting of unknown English artist. This is a depiction of power dynamics of what white men has-- this shows degradation and emasculation of both African- Americans women and men.

Olympia

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Édouard Manet, Olympia, oil on canvas, 1863 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia

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'Slaves Waiting for Sale' by Eyre Crowe (1861). (Heinz collection, Washington DC)

Portrait of a Negress

tavi_francis — 2015-12-13 19:15:22 UTC

Created in 1810, by

Benoist, Marie-Guillemine. The subject's name is unknown.

African-American Bodies Explained

tavi_francis — 2015-12-13 19:20:06 UTC

A TEDtalk delievered by

Rhon Manigault-Bryant talks

about the image of the black women from 1810 to the present, and the complexities of convey that image in science-fiction books. (stop at 9:33)

Analysis of the novel Passing by Nella Larsen

tavi_francis — 2015-12-13 20:33:39 UTC

In this analysis for Passing, highlights themes of colorism, racial passing, gender presented in Passing by Nella Larsen through W.E.B DuBois's theory of double consciousness.

The Penumbral Spaces of Nella Larsen's Passing

moeshamiller — 2015-12-13 20:42:40 UTC

This article discusses Nella Larsen's Passing by exploring the ideas of mobile identity and how it weakens the idea of race & race spaces.

Voice Work: Wright & Hurston

moeshamiller — 2015-12-13 20:51:28 UTC

Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston's similar political approach for the black female voice is explored and examined in this article.

Nella Larsen (1893-1964)

tavi_francis — 2015-12-13 21:07:09 UTC

An author that pushes the boundaries of the talk of conventional colorism, sexuality, and gender through black woman experience.

Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape

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Agostino Brunias ca. 1770-1796. Oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum.

moeshamiller — 2015-12-13 21:26:32 UTC

"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." Z.N. Hurston

Danger of a Single Story

moeshamiller — 2015-12-13 21:28:32 UTC

In this TED Talk a novelist by the name of Chimamanda Adichie chooses to share how she came about discovering a voice that was genuine to her culture. She discusses her experiences with British literature and its influence on her own writings at the beginning of her literary journey.

Margaret Walker

moeshamiller — 2015-12-13 21:33:22 UTC

Walker is an American poet as well as a writer that was involved in the African American literary movement.

(Re)Birth of Double Consciousness in the 21 century

tavi_francis — 2015-12-14 01:02:34 UTC

The lingering effects of the theory of W.E.B DuBois of double consciousness through education in the 21 century.

Black Privilege

tavi_francis — 2015-12-14 04:16:10 UTC

The poem "Black Privilege" is the in view of have the benefits attain from the dominant society however the opposite. Performed by Crystal Valentine.