‘This is rarely taught’: an exhibition examining African-Atlantic history

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A landmark exhibition, featuring artists including Hank Willis Thomas and Kara Walker, explores the slave trade and the African diaspora’s cultural legacy

arlier that day she had presided over the US Senate confirmation of the supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who wouldThen, in the evening, Vice-President Kamala Harris headed to the National Gallery of Art in Washington for a reception celebrating the opening of

Thomas, who made the fictional map in 2020, has spoken of how a “mythical connection to Africa is embedded in your identity, but many people go to Africa looking for home and don’t find it because our roots are so diluted there. They also never felt at home in the US, where they were born. I wanted to make a place where African Americans come from.”hangs from the ceiling.

Fletcher observes: “Black Americans are often made to stand in for other Black cultures and we often are centred or we centre ourselves in discourses on Blackness. It’s important to think about how to disrupt that because most enslaved Africans do not end up in America. , emissary of Congo to the Dutch Republic, a rare image of a Black person as a powerful and proud individual in elaborate European clothing.Photograph: Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson, New York, and Stevenson Cape Town / Johannesburgwhich reverses a 1967 photograph of a young woman taken in Kisangani, Congo, adds a new backdrop and renders the picture in warm gradients of orange.

 

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