Tag: Africana studies

Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group (University of Chicago)

https://voices.uchicago.edu/slavicult/

The Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture is an interdisciplinary forum created to discuss research related to images of slavery and the slave trade as well as the creation and use of images and objects by enslaved peoples and slaveholders. Our aim is to explore the multivalent relationship between slavery and visual cultures, examining themes such as visuality and memory of the slave trade; the role of the gaze and surveillance in slave societies and societies with slaves; regional comparisons of visual regimes associated with slavery; visual culture’s connection to racialized regimes of slavery; and the roles played by self-fashioning and the accumulation of visual capital by the enslaved.

Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora

http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/page/welcome

The images in Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. Our growing collection currently has over 1,200 images. This website is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public – in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa

https://caravansofgold.org/

This is the companion website for the “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa” The site includes in-depth information about the Caravans of Gold exhibition, including images and information about key objects and artworks from the exhibition, interviews with experts, and resources to support teaching and learning.”

Black Perspectives

https://www.aaihs.org/about-black-perspectives/

Black Perspectives is the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). As engaged scholars, we are deeply committed to producing and disseminating cutting-edge research that is accessible to the public and is oriented towards advancing the lives of people of African descent and humanity. We serve as a medium to advance these critical goals.