The history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary
Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their
pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey,
they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces
of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta
Warwick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first
fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of
two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia
Lewis (1844–1909) and Meta Warrick Fuller (1877–1968). Lewis's
and Fuller’s sculptures—and their visual narrative of a
people’s strength and humanity in the face of
oppression—present a textured historical diorama of Black life
during an era of transformative, yet sorrowful, events. In this
book, Lee Ann Timreck integrates Lewis's and Fuller’s visual
narrative with oral narratives of the newly emancipated, all set
within the historical context of Reconstruction, segregation, and
Jim Crow. The sculptures also reflect the artists’ gendered
perspective of emancipation, conveying a strong narrative on the
contributions and sacrifices made by newly freed Black women. These
emancipation sculptures provide both a historical narrative of the
Black emancipation experience and a moral narrative of America’s
failure to create a nation where "all men are created equal."
Pieces of Freedom challenges the twenty-first-century reader to
learn and accept this history so we might address our nation’s
lingering social and economic injustices.
General
| Imprint: |
University Press Of Mississippi
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Lee Ann Timreck
• Alex Bostic
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
277 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4968-4587-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-4968-4587-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781496845870 |
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