On the Media’s Face the Racist Nation episode, kind of a re-broadcast, is gem; especially Dr. Kendi’s interview. He makes the distinctive argument for the lineage of racist’s ideas, policy, poverty, ignorance, exploitive systems and attitude, as it has been implemented in the West. His 2016 book is Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
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Khalili
“Wet Feet” is a photo series examining the metonymic traces left by individuals forced to travel illegally from the Caribbean, and who eventually reached US soil. Blackboard at Jeu de Paume. Image via IG -
Visual corollary
Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self. Egg tempera on paper, 8 × 6 1/2 inches (20.3 × 16.5 cm)
Photo: Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, 1980/Matthew Fried/© MCA Chicago/Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York via Vulture
Childish Gambino
Published on May 5, 2018
“This is America” by Childish Gambino
Director: Hiro Murai
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Garnette Cadogan
Walking While Black – Literary Hub, July 8, 2016 by Garnette Cadogan. PRI’s The World.
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AG2016_1030667aBB or a fine place for our respite
Related : Jean-Claude Charles, La Route du Blues, via Île en île.
.And also related to :
Knowledge of freedom is (in) the invention of escape, stealing away in the confines, in the form, of a break.
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.
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We are already there
In the deployed undercommons.
Also, Black Kant, black chant, N.H. Pritchard .
Another reference to Kant.
“All the richness of the imagination,” Kant cautions in the Critique of Judgement, “in its lawless freedom produces nothing but nonsense.”
Knowledge of Freedom by Fred Moten CR: The New Centennial Review Vol. 4, No. 2, phosphorescent memories (fall 2004), pp. 269-310 -
Walking
Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967–2017 by Rachel Adams
Artists as voyagers …
Wanderlust highlights artists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art. This book (and the exhibition it accompanies) is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s need to roam and the work that emerges from this need.
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Each of these works recognizes the walk and the journey as much more than just a basic human act. Rebecca Solnit observes that walking replicates thinking, adding “the motions of the mind cannot be traced, but those of the feet can.” These works trace the motions of wandering artists’ focused minds.
Artists
Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Nevin Aladag, Francis Alÿs, Janine Antoni, John Baldessari, Kim Beck, Roberley Bell, Blue Republic, Sophie Calle, Rosemarie Castoro, Cardiff/Miller, Zoe Crosher, Fallen Fruit, Mona Hatoum, Nancy Holt, Kenneth Josephson, William Lamson, Richard Long, Marie Lorenz, Mary Mattingly, Anthony McCall, Ana Mendieta, Teresa Murak, Wangechi Mutu, Efrat Natan, Gabriel Orozco, Carmen Papalia, John Pfahl, Pope.L, Teri Rueb, Michael X. Ryan, Todd Shalom, Mary Ellen Strom, and Guido van der Werve.Contributors
Rachel Adams, Lucy Ainsworth, Andrew Barron, Pamela Campanaro, Andy Campbell, Hannah Cattarin, Ian Cofre, Jamie DiSarno, Katherine Finerty, Joshua Fischer, Natalie Fleming, Melanie Flood, Jason Foumberg, Allison Glenn, Kate Green, Ross Stanton Jordan, Anna Kaplan, Jamilee Lacy, Jennie Lamensdorf, Toby Lawrence, Jane McFadden, Lynnette Miranda, Conor Moynihan, Liz Munsell, Karen Patterson, Ariel Lauren Pittman, Sean Ripple, Eve Schillo, Holly Shen, Rebecca Solnit, Lexi Lee Sullivan, Whitney Tassie, Charlie Tatum, Zoë Taleporos, Lori Waxman -
The Liberator, a role to play
Jefferson L. Edmonds‘s newspaper had the byline, “A weekly newspaper devoted to the cause of good government and the advancement of the Negro.”Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines come to mind.
The claims for greater freedom are never enough. The role of operators acting on the machineries that produce civics, culture and liberties, Liberator, if you will, is pivotal and always needed.
William H. Johnson, Toussaint l’Ouverture, Haiti, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1154Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Haitian Revolution– William and Mary Quarterly, July 2012.
