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Of our spiritual strivings

Title
Of our spiritual strivings / Christina Quarles, W.E.B. Du Bois ; edditors, Amber Husain, Mark Lewis.
Author
Quarles, Christina, 1985-
Publication
  • London : Afterall Books, 2021.
  • Köln : Walther König
  • New York : Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., [2022]
  • ©2021

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  • Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
  • Husain, Amber
  • Lewis, Mark
  • Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London, England)
Description
89 pages : illustrations; 21 x 15 cm.
Summary
Upon its publication in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois' classic The Souls of Black Folk made history as a work of sociological thought, and would go on to become a cornerstone of African American literature. In it, Du Bois combined history and memoir to advance a vital message of resistance in the dehumanizing context of the Jim Crow era. It was in this book that Du Bois, in the essay "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," wrote of the "double consciousness" experienced by the Black subject--"a sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." Refusing this fate, Du Bois passionately and creatively makes the case for the rights of Black people of the South to be treated with equality and justice. Over a century later, Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles (born 1985) brings new energy to Du Bois' unfinished project, speaking to his melodious text with her own distinctive vibrancies of color and line, testing and inverting the "double consciousness" idea. Like Du Bois, the central focus of her practice is to find political power in categories used to undermine particular populations. --
Series Statement
Two works
Uniform Title
Two works.
Subject
  • Quarles, Christina, 1985-
  • 1900-1999
  • African Americans in art
  • Drawing, American > 21s century
  • African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century
  • African Americans > Social conditions
  • Noirs américains dans l'art
  • Noirs américains > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle
Call Number
NC139.Q37
ISBN
  • 9783753300603
  • 3753300608
LCCN
40031266964
OCLC
  • on1295404960
  • 1295404960
  • SCSB-14343919
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries