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A movement in every direction : a great migration critical reader

Title

A movement in every direction : a great migration critical reader / edited by Jessica Bell Brown, Ryan N. Dennis.

Publication

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

319 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 27 cm

Summary

This thoughtful interweaving of text and imagery presents a variety of perspectives on the Great Migration (1915-70), the mass exodus and dispersion of millions of African Americans out of the South. Through archival photography, newspaper clippings, maps, journal articles, book excerpts, and ephemera such as family recipes, the book immerses readers in Black history, the Great Migration, and its legacy. The book includes texts by authors ranging from W.E.B. Du Bois and Jean Toomer to Toni Tipton-Martin and culminates in a candid roundtable discussion about familial migration stories among some of the most respected Black artists, writers, and scholars working today: Theaster Gates, Kiese Laymon, Carrie Mae Weems, and others. The material is presented in three unique, thematic sections that explore the Great Migration's impact on the American city, Black Southern foodways, and cultural expression. Taken as a whole, this important volume provides powerful testimony to the systemic challenges such as social segregation, racism, and discrimination that Black communities have faced from the post-Emancipation period to the present moment.

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Pictorial works.

Note

Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Mississippi Museum of Art, April 9-September 11, 2022, and at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 30, 2022-January 29, 2023.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Directors' Foreword / Christopher Bedford and Betsy Bradley -- Introduction / Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis -- I. Between Town and Metropolis : The Great Migration and the American City. "A Review of the Year of 1918," 1918 ; Blyden Jackson, introduction to Black Exodus : The Great Migration from the American South, 1991 ; "Race Labor Leaving," 1916 ; "Big Exodus of Negroes," 1916 ; Philip Dray, excerpts from Capitol Men : The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen, 2008 ; "The Negro in Local Politics," 1903 ; "The Negro and Politics," 1899 ; Ralph W. Tyler, "Jackson an Oasis in the Desert of the South," 1914 ; "Negro Doctors in Miss. Since Reconstruction," and "Negro Lawyers in Mississippi Since Reconstuction," 1963 ; "Escaping Slaves," 1916 ; Letter from H.L. Remmel to Henry C. Wallace, 1923 ; "Some Problems of Migration," 1923 ; William O. Scroggs, "Interstate Migration of Negro Population," 1917 ; "Bricks Hurled Through Church Window in Md.," 1925 ; "The Tulsa Riots," 1921 ; "Negro Land-Owners," 1884 ; "Churches Lead Hate Crusade," 1945 ; '"Hundreds Buy Own Homes Under Plan," 1950 ; Thomas H. Ringgold, "Ringgold's Store a Mecca for Many Maryland Notables," 1932 ; "Checking Migration," 1919 ; Vann R. Newkirk II, "The Great Land Robbery," 2019 ; Mississippi Power Company, "The More Abundant Life : Open Letter to Mississippians," 1958 ; W.O. Saunders, "Why Jim Crow is Flying North," 1923 ; Lue Ella Pennington, excerpt from "The Outer Pocket," 1924 ; David Ward Howe, "The Observation Post : White Southerners Now Moving North," 1939 ; "White House, Biddle Deny Plan To Restrict Migration," 1943 ; Edward L. Ayers, excerpts from Southern Journey : The Migrations of the American South 1790-2020, 2020 ; W E.B. Du Bois, excerpts from The Philadelphia Negro : A Social Study, 1889 ; Gene Reid, "Study Finds Lung Cancer High in Black Migrants," 1975 ; "Lost in Migration," 1924 ; "When You Come North," 1925 ; "South Now Trying to Stop Migration by Legislation," 1927 ; "40,000 to Baltimore," 1963 ; "Migration Costs State Over 400,000," 1961 ; "Plants Must Hire Negroes, Manpower Chief Says," 1942 ; "South Hurt by Labor Shortage," 1923 ; "Most Negroes Per Sq. Mile in D.C.," 1926 ; "Basically Colored Counties Drop to 180 with Migration," 1945 ; St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton, excerpts from Black Metropolis : A Study of Negro Life in a Northern, 1945 ; "3rd of Negoes Going to Chicago Are from State," 1962 ; Charles Leavelle, "Green Pastures of WPA Entice Negroes to City," 1938 ; Bernadette Pruitt, "In Search of Freedom : Black Migration to Houston, 1914-1945," 2005 ; "The Year 1943," 1944 ; "Exodus : 1960 Style," 1962 ; Dennis Wrong, "Portrait of a Decade : what the census will show about us in the turbulent sixties," 1970 ; Isabel Wilkerson, "The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration," 2016
II. A Morsel, A Memory, A Feast : Lasting Legacies of Black Southern Foodways. Frederick Douglass Opie, excerpt from Hog and Hominy : Soul Food from Africa to America, 2008 ; Francis Lam, "Edna Lewis and the Black Roots of American Cooking," 2015 ; Jennifer Jensen Wallach, excerpt from Every Nation Has lts Dish : Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Centum America, 2019 ; Toni Tipton-Martin, excerpt from The Jemima Code : Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, 2015 ; Jessica B. Harris, "Migration Meals : How African American Food Transformed the Taste of America," 2021 ; Shakti Baum, Miss Mary, Sweet Honey, and the Cornbread / Griddled Sweet Com Cake with Tarragon and Honey Butter ; Nick Wallace, Braised Pig Cheek with Fresh Micro Carrots, Morel Mushrooms, and Peewee Potatoes ; Enrika Williams, Ham, the Way Aunt Tina Told Me ; Krystal C. Mack, Not My Mama's Potato Salad
III. Finding Sanctuary in Ourselves : Cultural Expressions of the Great Migration. Judith Weisenfeld, excerpts from New World A-Coming : Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, 2018 ; Jean Toomer, selected poems from Cane, 1923 ; Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., excerpt from the afterword to Cane by Jean Toomer, 2011 ; Langston Hughes, "Afraid," 1924 ; S.W. Henry, "Black Satin," 1926 ; Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Son," 1924 ; Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-Woman," 1925 ; Leslie King-Hammond, excerpt from Over the Line, the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, 2001 ; Lowery Stokes Sims, excerpt from Challenge of the Modern : African-American Artists, 1925-1945, 2003 ; Farah Jasmine Griffin, excerpt from "Who Set You Flowin'?" : The Great Migration Narrative, 1996 ; Sandra G. Shannon, "A Transplant That Did Not Take : August Wilson's Views on the Great Migration," 1997 ; Nicole R. Fleetwood, excerpt from Troubling Vision : Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, 2010 ; LeRoi Jones, excerpts from Blues People : The Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed From It, 1963 ; Bernice White, "It's NOT a Man's World," 1970 -- Roundtable.

Call Number

Sc F 23-47

ISBN

9780300264463
0300264461

OCLC

1265085696

Title

A movement in every direction : a great migration critical reader / edited by Jessica Bell Brown, Ryan N. Dennis.

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Chronological Term

Since 1900

Added Author

Brown, Jessica Bell, editor.

Dennis, Ryan N., editor.

Mississippi Museum of Art, host institution.

Baltimore Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 23-47

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