There was a day this semester, at the end of class, when Dr.Chapman made a point of taking us outside. We stood as a cohort at the base of this bridge surrounded by trees, and we took in the land around us. All its beauty and complexity, its movement and connection. Dr. Chapman made a…
WAWA Shortened Reflective Blog Post – P.S.
When I first arrived with my group to WAWA, I learned from a staff member that some of the trees in this area were over two hundred years old. Many of these trees make up what is called an old-growth forest–meaning that this forest has existed and has never been cut down by humans. As…
Semester Reflective Blog Post – P.S.
Early in the semester, I once wrote: My childhood, to put it bluntly, feels very “white.” Most of my friends were white, affluent, and religiously uniform. I attended Catholic school my entire life, surrounded by strictly white teachers and instructors. Furthermore, there were only three Black students in my entire graduating class. Reflecting on this…
Representations of Afro-Descendant Colombian Women: El Arte De Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés
For this assignment I wanted to highlight Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés, a plastic artist whose work explores the identity and representation of Afro-descendants in Colombia. Angulo Cortés was born in Nariño, Colombia, on the country’s pacific coast. She moved to Bogotá, the capital, at a young age. While the pacific coast has the largest Afro-descendant…
La Cocina by José Mañana
Mañana, J. La Cocina [Poster]. Richard A. Long posters, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Decatur, GA, United States. This poster once belonged to Richard A. Long (1927-2013), an Africana historian based in Atlanta. It portrays three African women preparing a meal within a round house, most likely in Equatorial…
Photographs of Old Atlanta Prison Farm
The archival material I chose to focus on were a collection of photographs across the years on the site of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. The Old Atlanta Prison Farm is the site that the City of Atlanta has allowed the Atlanta Police Foundation to lease for the construction of the Public Safety Training Center,…
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