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Vintage Postcards From The African World

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Author : Jessica B. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2020-05-15

Vintage Postcards From The African World written by Jessica B. Harris and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with Social Science categories.

For over forty years, professor and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris has collected postcards depicting Africans and their descendants in the American diaspora. They are presented for the first time in this exquisite volume. Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play brings together more than 150 images, providing a visual document of more than a century of work in agricultural and culinary pursuits and joy in entertainments, parades, and celebrations. Organized by geography—Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States—as well as by the types of scenes depicted—the farm, the garden, and the sea; the marketplace; the vendors and the cooks; leisure, entertainments, and festivities—the images capture the dignity of the labors of everyday life and the pride of festive occasions. Superb and rare images demonstrate everything from how Africans and their descendants dressed to what tools they used to how their entertainments provided relief from toil. Three essays accompany the postcards, one of which details Harris’s collection and the collecting process. A second presents suggestions on how to interpret the cards. A final essay gives brief information on the history of postcards and postcard dating and its increasing use and value to scholars.

Vintage Postcards From The African World

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Author : Jessica B. Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

Vintage Postcards From The African World written by Jessica B. Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.

An extraordinary view of the bounty of Africa and its diaspora.

Vintage Postcards From The African World

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Author : Jessica B. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2020-05-15

Insatiable City

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Author : Theresa McCulla
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-05-10

Insatiable City written by Theresa McCulla and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-10 with History categories.

A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city significantly defined by its foodways. Tracking the city’s economy from nineteenth-century chattel slavery to twentieth-century tourism, McCulla uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, postcards, photography, and other material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people. The consumption of food and people, she shows, was mutually reinforced and deeply intertwined. Yet she also details how enslaved and free people of color in New Orleans used food and drink to carve paths of mobility, stability, autonomy, freedom, profit, and joy. A story of pain and pleasure, labor and leisure, Insatiable City goes far beyond the task of tracing New Orleans's culinary history to focus on how food suffuses culture and our understandings and constructions of race and power.

Postcards From Africa

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language : en
Publisher: MFA Publications
Release Date : 2018-09-06

Postcards From Africa written by and has been published by MFA Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with categories.

A close look at photographic postcards made in Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century reveals surprising images and tells their often-complicated stories. Photographers in Africa grasped the opportunity to serve a lucrative market for images of the continent, both locally and worldwide, during the global postcard craze that peaked around 1900 and continued for several decades. Their picture postcards now contribute to understanding political, social and cultural changes in Africa at the time, as the rise of the new medium coincided with the expansion and consolidation of colonial rule. They also provide a way to reconstruct the life and work of the photographers of European, African and other backgrounds who created these images - which often survive only in postcard form - and in some cases published them as well. The cards were produced for residents and travellers in Africa, as well as for buyers and collectors who had never set foot on the continent. Their depictions of colonial administrations, exploitation of resources and peoples, as well as images inscribing tribal identities and racial classifications, often reflect the colonizers' worldview. Yet it is also possible to recover the authorship of some of the African women and men who participated in these photographic encounters. For instance, some cards show that members of Africa's elites recognized the power of photographic images to enhance their standing and present their own narratives. Postcards from Africa reproduces a significant selection of these complex cards - the majority drawn from the extensive Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - accompanied by a leading scholar's exploration of the stories they tell.

Paintings By African Americans

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Release Date : 1991

Paintings By African Americans written by and has been published by Pomegranate Communications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1992 Justification Of The Budget Estimates Indian Health

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1992 Justification Of The Budget Estimates Indian Health written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Government publications categories.

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1992

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1992 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with United States categories.

Fort Worth In Vintage Postcards

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Author : Quentin McGown
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2003

Fort Worth In Vintage Postcards written by Quentin McGown and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.

This volume uses 200 vintage postcards to illustrate Fort Worth's grandest architecture, important businesses, and everyday street scenes. Informative historical captions accompany each photograph.

Galesburg Illinois In Vintage Postcards

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Author : Carley R. Robison
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2000

Galesburg Illinois In Vintage Postcards written by Carley R. Robison and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.

Galesburg, Illinois, is a town proud of its history and heritage. From its founding by courageous and determined pioneers in 1837 to the present day, it has been referred to in many ways--including "The Ideal City" and "The Buckle on the Corn Belt." Galesberg, Illinois in Vintage Postcards uses postcards as the lens to focus on the fascinating history of this Midwestern town. Throughout its history, the postcard has always been a popular means of communication. Looking back at them now, we are offered a unique insight into the places and times illustrated on the cards, and an intimate look at the people sending these cards to loved ones in faraway locations.

Vintage Postcards From The African World

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