Friday, June 18, 2010

During her public lecture and seminars held earlier this week, Saidiya Hartman mentioned the Library of Congress' rich collection of images of African Americans ca. 1880s-1900s. The Prints and Photographs Online Catalogue offers much to explore. Here, I have posted "Whose dat?" (ca. 1897, Rudolf Eickemeyer). I have also picked up a copy of Hartman's recent book Lose Your Mother, a historio-autobiographical memoir of her literal and psychic travels into Ghana's legacies of slavery.

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