This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

slaves in the family

It is the chapter one of the book Slaves in The Family. author uses the simple words to tell us a true story about his memory of his family.
In the book, there are many paragraphs that express a very moving emotion from a person who is born in the slave family.

Here are some quotes:
"The plantation heritage was not "ours," like a piece of family property, and not "theirs," belonging to black families, but a shared history. "

"Slave owners rarely became artists. Despite their leisure, they did not paint pictures or perform music apart from recitals at home. They wrote, but only for a few readers. Rather than make art, slave owners collected things. They assembled people, land, and facts about both."

Here is the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/ball-slaves.html

-Reven


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