Tag: black history month
Celebrating Black History Month in the Romance Languages
Contemporary Black, African, and African diaspora writers across the world are redefining literature and criticism in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Here are some noteworthy books in their original languages recently acquired by the UC Berkeley Library. Translations into English may also be available for some of the better known.
Mélio Tinga
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Léonora Miano
Cristina Roldão et al.
David Pullins
Aïssa Maïga et al.
Doris Wieser & Jessica Falconi, orgs
Léonora Miano
Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
Alain Mabanckou, Pascal Blanchard, et Abdourahman Waberi
Evelyne Trouillot
Dimitry Elias Léger
Tierno Monénembo
Djaïli Amadou Amal
Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry
Igiaba Scego
Pierre Singaravélou
Carlos Martens Bilongo
Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, ed.
Camilla Hawthorne
Inocência Mata et al., eds.
Please also see the related English literatures post for Black History Month 2024 and the Black History at Cal library research guide.
Exploring the Arts during Black History Month
“The A&AePortal is committed to featuring groundbreaking and authoritative books on African Americans and the arts. Here are some highlights—see what might be helpful in your teaching, coursework, or research!” – from the A&Ae Portal Website.
Explore the Arts and Architecture E Portal from Yale University Press provided to you by UC Berkeley Library. Click the link to see these and other titles about the African American and Black Diaspora.
Visit the Art History/ Classics library to view more new books on Black and African American Artists now on display in 308 Doe.
Celebrating Black History Month- New E-Resources in Art History
Check out these materials, all available on-line. Click on the titles to access them through UC Library Search.
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing
The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival
Death’s futurity : the visual life of Black power
Feelin : creative practice, pleasure, and Black feminist thought
Gullah spirit the art of Jonathan Green
Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum
Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O’Grady and the Art of Language
The Black experience in design : identity, expression & reflection
Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter
Black History Month and February’s New Art Books
Check out the work of these Black and African American artists in these new catalogs, presently on view on the Art History/ Classics Library new book shelf. Click the links below the images to see them in UC Library Search.
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw Dirty South Beyond the Black Atlantic
Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance Betye Saar Bob Thompson: This House is Mine
Black History Month Celebration at UC Berkeley Library!
Please join us for a virtual Black History Month Celebration at UC Berkeley Library! The event is planned for Wednesday, February 23, 2022, from 11:30 am until 1 pm PST / 2:30 pm to 4 pm EST on Zoom.
Webinar Registration: ucberk.li/black-history-month-2022-event
Free and Open to all with prior registration. Please remember to authenticate by signing into your institutional or individual zoom accounts first before trying to register for the event.
I want to thank our Vice Chancellor for the Division of Equity & Inclusion, Dania Matos, who found time out of her hectic schedule to provide the opening remarks. We look forward to welcoming everyone. Please be so kind as to share information about this event with your respective communities of practice.
February’s New Books in Art History
Check out these new books and e-books in the subject of Art History. Click the links below for their records in UC Library Search.
World is Africa Young, Gifted and Black With Fists Raised
Alison Saar: of Aether and Earthe Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects Raggin’ On
The “Black Art” Renaissance Black Queer Freedom Designing a New Tradition
New E-Resources for February: Black History Month
February is Black History Month! Be sure to check out new Art History e-resources available through Oskicat. Click on the links below the images to view them in the library catalog.
African American Arts Art for People’s Sake Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
Building the Black Arts Movement Elizabeth Catlett The Image of the Black in Western Art
The Romare Bearden Reader The Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance To Describe a Life
Celebrating African American History Month: Mexico
Every two days, I will post some more interesting books on Afro-Latinx communities of Latin America along with some video clips for your enjoyment. The purpose of these posts is to inform and celebrate African American History Month using print materials from Latin America. One might find some images extremely disturbing given the violence, injustice, and dislocation that took place in Mexico of these communities. We will post only three or four images each time. Please click on each image below to access the library’s catalog.
In times of Corona: Celebrating African American History Month and Latin America
As we celebrate African American History Month in the United States, America’s racialized past cannot be ignored nor forgotten. Latin America also has a large population of Afro-Latinos and this post is dedicated to providing our readers with some of the highlights from UC Berkeley Library’s collections from Latin America that deal with the nuanced history of Africans in Latin America. We have chosen only a few public domains and open access books that can be read online in times of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Also, there are some books that are not in the public domain but can be read online by authenticating oneself using the UC Berkeley credentials.
We leave you with a clip about Argentina también es afro: Las conquistas de la libertad (capítulo completo) – Canal Encuentro
An African American short story in French
Born in New Orleans, Victor Séjour (1817-1874) was a Creole writer who moved to France at the age of 19 to continue his education, find work, and flee the racial oppression of Louisiana. His short story “Le Mulâtre” (“The Mulatto”) was first published in the abolitionist journal Révue des Colonies (March 1837) not long after his arrival in Paris and is now freely available through Gallica—the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It is the first work of fiction written by an African American author. Set in Saint Domingue before the Haitian Revolution, Séjour’s work centers on the injustice and cruelty of slavery. According to Marlene Daut and David O’Connell in her article “Sons of White Fathers: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘The Mulatto'” published in Nineteenth-Century Literature 65:1 (June 2010), the tale was “not simply a blow . . . struck for the cause of abolition in the French colonies, but [was] . . . also one of the first manifestations of a ‘literature of combat’ written by an American black.””
A full English translation of “The Mulatto” was published more than one hundred years after his death in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1997). Remembered as one of the first black writers of both the African American and French literary traditions, Victor Séjour enjoyed a period of success as a playwright, was naturalized as a French citizen, and is buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The Library has reprints in French and a few English translations of his works in the Main Stacks while The Bancroft Library houses two rare first editions – La madone des roses : drame en cinq actes, en prose (1869) and La tireuse de cartes; drame en cinq actes et un prologue, en prose (1860) in its African American Writers collection.
This post has been shared as part of a UC Berkeley initiative announced by Chancellor Carol Christ to mark the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of enslaved Africans in the English colonies.