A movement in every direction : legacies of the Great Migration / edited by Jessica Bell Brown, Ryan N. Dennis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Jessica Bell, editor.

Dennis, Ryan N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970.

Genre:

Art.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, MD : Baltimore Museum of Art ; Jackson, MS : Mississippi Museum of Art ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Great Migration (1915-70) saw more than six million African Americans leave the South for destinations across the United States. This incredible dispersal of people across the country transformed nearly every aspect of Black life and culture. Offering a new perspective on this historical phenomenon, this incisive volume presents immersive photography of newly commissioned works of art by Akea, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. The artists investigate their connections to the Deep South through familial stories of perseverance, self-determination, and self-reliance and consider how this history informs their working practices. Essays by Kiese Laymon, Jessica Lynne, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and Willie Jamaal Wright explore how the Great Migration continues to reverberate today in the public and private spheres and examine migration as both a historical and a political consequence, as well as a possibility for reclaiming agency.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780300265736

0300265735

OCLC:

1338671056

Publisher Number:

40031352470