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Declaration House / edited by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Paul M. Farber, and Yolanda Wisher.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N6537.C4987 D43 2026
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Fine Arts Library N6537.C4987 D43 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania.
- Clark, Sonya. Descendants of Monticello.
- Clark, Sonya.
- United States. Declaration of Independence.
- United States.
- Hemings family.
- Hemmings, Robert, 1762-1819.
- Hemmings, Robert.
- Declaration House (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Public art--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Public art.
- Video installations (Art)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Video installations (Art).
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 145 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- illustration
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Essays, poems, conversations, and artworks related to the art installation The Descendants of Monticello and the Declaration House site in Philadelphia"-- $c Provided by publisher.
- "Essays, poems, conversations, and artworks related to the art installation The Descendants of Monticello and the Declaration House site in Philadelphia"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Watchword: Seers / Jane Kamensky
- Preface / Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Paul M. Farber, and Yolanda Wisher
- Editors' Note
- Poem: A Prayer for Robert Hemmings / Husnaa Haajarah Hashim
- Robert Hemmings' Declaration of Independence / Andrew M. Davenport
- Tracing Freedom's Footsteps: Notes on the Writing of History / Paul M. Farber
- Poem: I Plan to Haunt Y'all, Too / Kai Davis
- Seeing to Remember: Sonya Clark's Practices of Memory / Anna Arabindan-Kesson
- The Fullness of Ourselves: A Conversation between Sonya Clark and Gayle Jessup White, with Yolanda Wisher
- Can I Grow A Witness?: Meditations on Trees as Kindred, Kindred as Trees / Yolanda Wisher
- Family Moments / Niya Bates
- Careful Looking: Tending to Images of Descendants and Ancestors / Kerry C. Bickford
- Poem: Wanted, A Genteel Servant: for Robert Hemmings / Paul Buchanan
- "Founding and Finding Generational Archives": A Conversation with Descendants of Monticello J. Calvin Jefferson Sr. and Jabari Jefferson / Auriana Woods
- Blinking Black Urbanism: Placesteading in the Fictions of Philadelphia's 7th Street and Declaration House / Matthew J. M. Kenyatta
- Afterword: "We Bind Ourselves Firmly By The Present": Robert Hemmings's Progeny and Progress / Salamishah Tillet.
- Notes:
- The public artwork "The Descendants of Monticello," curated by Monument Lab, was installed at Declaration House in Philadelphia from June 24-December 1, 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the publisher.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781439927649
- 1439927642
- OCLC:
- 1548257710
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000396011
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