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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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Additional Authors
  • Brown, Jessica Bell
  • Dennis, Ryan N.
  • Mississippi Museum of Art, host institution.
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, host institution.
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
  • 1900-1999
  • Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970 > Exhibitions
  • United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • 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.
Call Number
E185.6
ISBN
  • 9780300264463
  • 0300264461
OCLC
  • 1265085696
  • on1265085696
  • SCSB-14345771
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries