In search of African American space : redressing racism / edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, with Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone ; authors, Sara Caples [and eleven others].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-245) and index.
Contents:
Seeking Sally Hemings / Marisa Williamson. Rhizomatic excerpts / Scott Ruff -- Spaces of refuge and delight / Jeffrey Hogrefe -- The terrain of politics: race, space, and vernacular citizenship / Ann S. Holder -- Black visuality in antebellum New York / Radiclani Clytus -- Cultural translations and tropes of African American space / Scott Ruff -- Diasporic monuments and the translation of context / Rodney Leon -- Weeksville revisited -- Heritage center landscape / Elizabeth Kennedy -- Heritage Center building / Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson -- Embodied silences: the meditations on mpas, museums, and monuments / J. Yolande Daniels -- Walking the geography of racism / Walis Johnson -- Seeking Sally Hemings / Marisa Williamson.
Summary:
In Search of African American Space' explores the relationship between the African diaspora and contemporary spatial practice from multiple critical vantages in order to locate a transhistorical moment in the afterlife of slavery. Traditional notions of space are challenged as the analyses in this volume transcend discipline, deriving from architecture, performance art, history, and visual theory. Richly illustrated and organized thematically, the anthology, edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff, is divided into two sections. The first is dedicated to an aspect of practice that has operated outside of the academy. Contributions by architects of arguably the first generation to work in the discourse of the African diaspora are featured. These architects are conscious of performances typologies of opposition that have emerged from the slave-ship hold, slave plantation quarters, and urban 'slum/ghetto' as they seek to define, interpret, and design African American art, architecture, and public space. In the second section, quotidian practices are rendered significant as expressions of culture, aesthetics, and political activism. The transformation of space is an act of autonomy. Making African American spatial practices present is vital in this volume for to allow their absence, denial, or erasure is to allow the lingering effects of slavery to manifest as part of the contemporary condition.
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