 | Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing Subjects: Art & Art History ; Gender Studies ; Sociology ; African Studies ; Feminist & Women''s Studies ; African American Studies ; American Studies; Signup to be notified when the book becomes available > Black motherhood through Black womanphotographic art Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation questions how the Black female body, specifically the Blackmaternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrativeon her body and that of her maternal ancestors. Drawing on a wide range ofscholarly inquiry and contemporary art, this book addresses thesemisconceptions and fills in the gaps that exist in the photographicrepresentation of Black motherhood, mothering, and mutual care within Blackcommunities. The essays and interviews, paired with acurated selection of images, address the complicated relationship betweenBlackness and photography and in particular its gendered dimension, itsrelationship to health, sexuality, and digital culture - primarily in thecontext of racialized heteronormativity. This collection, then, challengesracist images and discourses, both historically and in its persistence incontemporary society, while reclaiming the innate brilliance of Black womenthrough personal stories, history, political acts, connections to place,moments of pleasure, and communal celebration. This visual exploration of Black motherhoodthrough pictures made by Black woman-identifying photographers thus serves as areflection of the past and a portal to the future and contributes to recentscholarship on the complexity of Black life and Black joy. Foreword by Salamishah Tillet and Scheherazade Tillet. Contributing authors: Tomi Akitunde(founder and editor-in-chief of mater mea), Grace Aneiza Ali (Florida State University), Emily Brady (University of Nottingham), Lesly Deschler Canossi(Women Picturing Revolution), Nicole J. Caruth (independent curator), HaileEshe Cole (University of Connecticut), Atalie Gerhard (Saarland University),Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley College), Rachel Lobo (York University),Zoraida Lopez-Diago (Women Picturing Revolution), Salamishah Tillet (RutgersUniversity), Scheherazade Tillet (A Long Walk Home), Brie McLemore (Universityof California, Berkeley), Renée Mussai (Autograph London), Marly Pierre-Louis(independent curator), Jonathan Michael Square (Parsons School of Design), SusanThompson (independent curator), Jennifer Turner (Hollins University), SashaTurner (Johns Hopkins University), Rhaisa Kameela Williams (PrincetonUniversity) Contributing artists: Nydia Blas, SamanthaBox, SheilaPree Bright, Renee Cox, Andrea Chung, Nona Faustine, Adama Delphine Fawundu, vanessagerman , Ayana V. Jackson, Lebohang Kganye, Deana Lawson, Qiana Mestich, MarciaMichael, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Keisha Scarville, Mickalene Thomas, MarySibande, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis This book emerges from the project WomenPicturing Revolution. This publication isGPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content). |
