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Title

Akasha Hull photographs.

Author

Hull, Akasha Gloria

Publication

1953-2011.

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Additional Authors

• Akwei-Bey, Kai
• Farmer, Sharon C.
• Harris, Don
• Pollock, Lorna G.
• Putnam, Sarah
• Syfrit, Ann Brandi
• Turner, Alvin
• Turner, Bruce K.
• Victor, Thomas
• Richards-Ward's Studio (New York, N.Y.), photographer.
• Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), photographer.

Found In

p1pc Hull, Akasha Gloria Akasha Hull papers, 1916-2018

Description

• 1,130 items (5 boxes); 29 x 33 cm and smaller.
• 67 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;
• 94 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;
• 7 photographic prints : dye coupler, one inkjet, color ;
• 349 photographic prints : dye coupler, color ;
• 461 photographic prints : dye coupler, color ;
• 10 instant camera prints : dye diffusion, color ;
• 7 contact prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;
• 80 film negatives : color, six black and white ;
• 55 slides : black and white ;

Summary

• The collection depicts the personal life and professional career of writer, educator and feminist Akasha Gloria Hull from the 1950s to early 2010s, though primarily from the 1970s through the 1990s. Depictions of Hull's early life are limited.
• The collection consists of individual portraits of Hull; group portraits showing Hull with family, friends, colleagues and students; portraits of family, friends, colleagues and notable persons; images of historical figures; and views and candid shots of lectures, presentations, interviews, workshops, book signings, college life, celebrations, family and social gatherings, commencements, leisure activities, and travel. Much of the collection depicts Hull's personal life and her academic, literary and feminist activities during her teaching tenures at the University of Delaware (1971-1988) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (1988-2000).
• Among the individuals depicted with Hull include writers, friends and colleagues Gwendolyn Brooks, Demita Frazier, Audre Lorde, Konda Mason, Barbara Smith, Namonyah Soipan, Martha Zingo, Bettina Aptheker, Maude Meehan, Toni Cade Bambara, Carroll Phyllis Oliver, Geraldine McIntosh, Faith Queman, and SDiane Adamz-Bogus. Additionally depicted are members of Hull's family, including her son Adrian, her mother Jimmie Thompson, her grandson Damian Hull-Williams, her sister Maxine Duruisseau, her brother Walter Thompson, her domestic partner Debra Lynn Busman, her first husband Prentice R. Hull, and her second husband Anthony Wellington. Also included are several small portraits of friends from grade school through high school (ca. 1955-1962). Of note are a series of images prepared and compiled as camera copy for the W.W. Norton publication of "Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson," which Hull edited and wrote an introduction for, that was originally published in 1984.

Subject

• Hull, Akasha Gloria
• Hull, Akasha Gloria > Homes and haunts > California
• Hull, Akasha Gloria > Homes and haunts > Delaware
• African American women authors
• African American women poets
• African American women educators
• African American feminists
• African American lesbians
• African Americans > Education
• College students
• Lectures and lecturing
• African Americans > Political activity
• African Americans > Travel
• African Americans > Social life and customs
• African American families
• Academic rites and ceremonies
• Public speaking > United States > 1980-1999
• Feminists
• African American LGBTQ+ people
• Homes
• African Americans
• Political participation
• United States
• Delaware
• California

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1950-2019.
• Group portraits – 1950-2019.
• Snapshots – 1950-2019.
• Publicity photographs – 1980-1999.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1950-1999.
• Dye coupler prints – 1960-2019.
• Instant camera prints – 1970-1989.

Note

• Title taken from the Akasha Hull Papers.
• Some photographs bear photographer's hand stamp on verso. Some items bear photographer's name handwritten on verso; some items bear photographer's signature on recto. Some items bear photographer's name printed on recto; some items bear photographer's printed photo information label on verso.
• Some items bear inscriptions on the recto; some items bear handwritten notations on verso. Some items bear printed captions on recto; some items bear printed caption labels on verso.
• Some items are mounted, or enclosed in note cards; one item is mounted to a souvenir mat.
• Some items have been prepared as camera ready copy, with attached instructions for page placement and image size. Some of these items bear cropping marks.
• Some images may only be available as contact sheets, slides or negatives.
• Collection contains work by Sharon C. Farmer, Don Harris and Lorna G. Pollock, among others.

Access (note)

• Restriction: three photo albums closed for conservation.
• Restriction: negatives are closed to research. Access to one photograph is closed until death of donor.

Terms of Use (note)

• Some items are under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• Akasha Gloria Hull, neé Gloria Theresa Thompson, an educator, poet, writer, and Black feminist scholar, was born in 1944, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Hull attended Purdue University where she earned her Master's (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in English Literature. She has been a professor of women's studies and literature, and an advocate for Black women's studies as a separate academic field, primarilly at the University of Delaware (1971-1988) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (1988-2000). Among her published works are All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, with Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith (1982), Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1984), Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1987), Healing Heart: Poems 1973-1988 (1989), Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women (2001), and her first novel Neicy (2012). Hull has also had her writings published in several journals and anthologies; and has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. She was a member of the Combahee River Collective which created a framework for Black feminist ideology based on the experiences of "interlocking oppressions" within the lives of queer Black women.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Akasha Hull Papers, 1916-2018.

Call Number

Sc Photo Akasha Hull Collection

OCLC

1373960354

Author

Hull, Akasha Gloria, compiler.

Title

Akasha Hull photographs.

Production

1953-2011.

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

projected

Type of Carrier

sheet

slide

Restricted Access

Restriction: three photo albums closed for conservation.

Restriction: negatives are closed to research. Access to one photograph is closed until death of donor.

Terms Of Use

Some items are under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

Akasha Gloria Hull, neé Gloria Theresa Thompson, an educator, poet, writer, and Black feminist scholar, was born in 1944, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Hull attended Purdue University where she earned her Master's (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in English Literature. She has been a professor of women's studies and literature, and an advocate for Black women's studies as a separate academic field, primarilly at the University of Delaware (1971-1988) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (1988-2000). Among her published works are All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, with Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith (1982), Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1984), Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1987), Healing Heart: Poems 1973-1988 (1989), Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women (2001), and her first novel Neicy (2012). Hull has also had her writings published in several journals and anthologies; and has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. She was a member of the Combahee River Collective which created a framework for Black feminist ideology based on the experiences of "interlocking oppressions" within the lives of queer Black women.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Akasha Hull Papers, 1916-2018.

Local Note

Sc MG 977

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Added Author

Akwei-Bey, Kai, photographer.

Farmer, Sharon C., photographer.

Harris, Don, photographer.

Pollock, Lorna G., photographer.

Putnam, Sarah, photographer.

Syfrit, Ann Brandi, photographer.

Turner, Alvin, photographer.

Turner, Bruce K., photographer.

Victor, Thomas, photographer.

Richards-Ward's Studio (New York, N.Y.), photographer.

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), photographer.

Found In:

p1pc Hull, Akasha Gloria Akasha Hull papers, 1916-2018

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Akasha Hull Collection