Copyright
Deborah Willis; Ellyn Toscano; Kalia Brooks Nelson; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.Published On
2019-03-08ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
668 pages (xxx+638)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1090549391LCCN
2019452866BIC
- AG
- AJ
- JFFN
- JFS
BISAC
- SOC008000
- SOC007000
- SOC028000
LCC
- JV6347
Keywords
- collection of essays
- women
- migration
- women’s experiences of migration
- women’s perspectives
- writing
- photography
- art
- film
Women and Migration
Responses in Art and History
- Deborah Willis (editor)
- Ellyn Toscano (editor)
- Kalia Brooks Nelson (editor)
The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.
The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women’s joy and suffering, disaster and delight, place, memory and identity.
This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences.
Endorsements
'Women and Migration' is not only rich in detailing women’s lives, daily life, and human agency in addition to memory, emotion, and culture but also multidisciplinary and a welcome focus on women’s diverse experiences with migration from the perspective of class, ethnicity, ‘race’, religion, and sexual identity. I particularly like the narratives showcasing women and migrations from political and geographical perspectives with regard to the fluidity and representations of borders and border crossings. It is especially relevant given the varied responses to migration in Europe and North America today. Their ‘voices’ rise from the pages of the manuscript!
Dr Mary Anne Poutanen
McGill University
Reviews
'Women and Migration' fonde una molteplicità di sguardi sulla complessità di un fenomeno e, attraverso le sue pagine, immerge il lettore nell’universo delle migrazioni. ['Women and Migration' fuses multiple glances on the complexity of the phenomenon and, through its pages, immerses the reader in the universe of migration.]
Laura Amigo
Studi Emigrazione (0039-2936), vol. 218, 2020.
Additional Resources
Contents
Introduction: Women and Migration[s]
(pp. 1–10)- Deborah Willis
- Ellyn Toscano
- Kalia Brooks Nelson
1. Between Self and Memory
(pp. 13–22)- Ellyn Toscano
- Anna Arabindan-Kesson
- Sandrine Colard
4. Migrations
(pp. 47–54)- Kathy Engel
5. Carrying Memory
(pp. 57–70)- Marianne Hirsch
6. Making Through Motion
(pp. 71–78)- Wangechi Mutu
- Karen Finley
- Cheryl A. Wall
9. Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, Water
(pp. 107–112)- Sama Alshaibi
- Jessica Ingram
11. Visualizing Displacement Above The Fold
(pp. 121–134)- Lorie Novak
- Debora Spini
13. A Different Lens
(pp. 155–160)- Maaza Mengiste
- Maaza Mengiste
15. Swimming with E. C.
(pp. 167–192)- Kellie Jones
- Jennifer L. Morgan
17. Black Women's Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the 'Good' White Liberal Agenda
(pp. 207–216)- Bettina L. Love
- Editha Mesina
- Allana Finley
20. What Would It Mean to Sing A Black Girl’s Song?: A Brief Statement on the Reality of Anti-Black Girl Terror
(pp. 233–240)- Treva B. Lindsey
- Pamela Newkirk
22. Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and Iconicity
(pp. 247–264)- Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
23. Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand Tour
(pp. 265–272)- Sirpa Salenius
24. Making Latinx Art: Juana Valdes at the Crossroads of Latinx and Latin American Art
(pp. 273–282)- Arlene Dávila
25. Moving Mountains: Harriet Hosmer’s Nineteenth-Century Italian Migration to Become the First Professional Woman Sculptor
(pp. 283–298)- Patricia Cronin
26. Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings
(pp. 301–322)- Roshini Kempadoo
27. Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar World
(pp. 323–330)- Joan Morgan
- Sarah K. Khan
29. Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in Displacement
(pp. 345–362)- Gayatri Gopinath
30. The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race inMing Wong’s Life of Imitation
(pp. 363–376)- Kalia Brooks Nelson
31. The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart
(pp. 379–394)- Francille Rusan Wilson
- Tiffany M. Gill
33. Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo's Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890-1900
(pp. 415–438)- Paulette Young
- Paulette Young
35. Löis Mailou Jones in the World
(pp. 453–470)- Cheryl Finley
- Grace Aneiza Ali
- Alessandra Capodacqua
38. Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works
(pp. 505–532)- M. Neelika Jayawardane
- Alessandra Di Maio
40. Seizing Control of the Narrative
(pp. 555–560)- Misan Sagay
- Gunja SenGupta
42. The Sacred Migration of Sister Gertrude Morgan
(pp. 581–604)- Imani Uzuri
Contributors
Deborah Willis
(editor)Deborah Willis is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on photography and imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. Her research examines photography's multifaceted histories, visual culture, the photographic history of Slavery and Emancipation, contemporary women photographers and beauty. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book (with Barbara Krauthamer) Envisioning Emancipation. Other notable projects include The Black Female Body A Photographic History (2002); Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers–1840 to the Present (2002); Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (2009); Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (2009), a NAACP Image Award Literature Winner; and Black Venus 2010: They Called Her 'Hottentot' (2010).
Ellyn Toscano
(editor)Ellyn Toscano is Senior Director of Programing, Partnerships and Community Engagement, NYU in Brooklyn and former Executive Director of New York University Florence. She is the founder of La Pietra Dialogues and the founding producer of The Season, a summer arts festival in Florence, Italy. Toscano co-organized Black Portraitures conference at NYU Florence and produced the exhibition 'ReSignifications', held at three venues in Florence, Italy. She is a member of the Boards of the Harbor Conservancy, New York, Museo Marino Marini in Florence, Italy; of the John Brademas Center, New York; the Italian Advisory Council of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy; and the Comitato Promotore of the Festival degli Scrittori and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, Santa Maddalena Foundation, Donnini, Italy. Before arriving at New York University Florence, Toscano served as Chief of Staff and Counsel to Congressman Jose Serrano of New York, was his chief policy advisor and directed his work on the Appropriations Committee. Toscano also served as counsel to the New York State Assembly Committee on Education for nine years and served on the boards of several prominent arts and cultural institutions in New York City, including The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (representative of the Borough President), A lawyer by training, Toscano earned an LLM in International Law from New York University School of Law.
Kalia Brooks Nelson
(editor)Kalia Brooks Nelson is a New-York-based independent curator and educator. Brooks Nelson is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Brooks Nelson holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts in 2006, and was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program 2007/2008. She has served as a consulting curator with the City of New York through the Department of Cultural Affairs and Gracie Mansion Conservancy. Brooks Nelson is also an ex-officio trustee on the Board of the Museum of the City of New York.