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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
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Landsmark, Theodore Carlisle. "'Haunting Echoes': Histories and Exhibition Strategies for Collecting Nineteenth-Century African American Crafts," American and New England Studies, Boston University, January 1999.
Collectors of vernacular crafts made by black artisans for African American use provide distinctive insights into how blacks represented their cultural values to themselves. This dissertation examines three private collections of…nineteenth-century African American art and crafts… Part I…explores the interpretive strategies of ethnographic collecting and surveys the historiography of research into nineteenth-century African American vernacular crafts. Part II examines [three private collectors who] transcended the limitations of available scholarship in their interpretations of nineteenth-century African American artisanry. Their collections represent slave craftsmanship, “make-do” aesthetics, and free black entrepreneurship… Part III acknowledges that early African American culture had syncretic influences on other cultures. [The] work concludes with recommendations for assessing artisanal authenticity and enhancing the interpretive authority of collections of nineteenth-century African American vernacular crafts.
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