Rethinking America's past : voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection /

The Kinsey Collection is one of the preeminent private collections of African American art and history in the world today. The collection spans five-hundred years of African American intellectual and artistic impacts, and shifts the memory of African American history from victimhood to an emphasis o...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Gruenewald, Tim (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cincinnati : University of Cincinnati Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Kinsey, Bernard, > 1943- > Art collections. Kinsey, Shirley > Art collections. African American art > Social aspects. African Americans > History. African Americans > Race identity. Collective memory > United States. African American art > Private collections. African Americans > History > Private collections.

Table of Contents:

Collection/collective identity: collection and remembering African American art and history / Tim Gruenewald
"No man can be prevented from visiting his wife": Henry Butler and enslaved manliness in family and intimacy / Tom Foster
Revising escape: the promise of free trade in Frederick Douglass's autobiographies and Amitav Ghosh's Global geography of commercial imperialism / Kendall Johnson
"Damn that Jim Crow": blues songs travel the American apartheid / Steven Tracy
Alain Locke's New negro: of words and images / Selina Lai-Henderson
Set adrift: Lois Mailou Jones and the fluidity of blackness / Ivy Wilson
Quantum aesthetics: the color of light in Beauford Delaney's "untitled" / Russ Castronovo and Dorothy Draheim
Beyond civil rights: remembering and continuing the black freedom movement in the United States / Greta De Jong.