After all this research, I think I will do another poster series, or some other graphics/art project, on African American history and culture.
Some possible topics could be:
1. The importance of African American hair and its history. Why people started relaxing their hair. Why it is seem today as good or bad.
- Black is Beautiful
- Intro to Black Hair - Coil Review
- My Natural Hair Journey
2. Various activists
- Assata Shakur
- Marcus Garvey
- Sojouner Truth
3. African music, art and poetry. Though I have not posted much here are some artists, I found interesting.
- Slam NUBA
- African American Reading List (Secret Life of Bees, From Strength to Love, Black Power and Black Theology, and Bullets (from Slam NUBA))
- For Colored Girls (should be added to my reading list)
4. "Black is Beautiful," "Black Pride" or "My Black is Beautiful." One of the main issues that I found on this topic is the debate between relaxed and natural hair and what it says about an African American woman.
- My Black is Beautiful
5. African religion and spirituality
African Spirits in the Diaspora
6. White Privilege and Light-Skinned Privilege (you get some for ex. I don't get followed at wall mart but still cant see myself in a wedding magazine to see what a dress would look like on me.) This topic could also talk about how all (most) people have privilege and how to use those privileges to stand up for others.
7. I am not sure how this would be used in a project, but the importance of Black Liberation Theology.
These are just some possibilities for research that I can use in future graphics projects...
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Woo hoo...I will be having a show dealing with some or all of these topics in November at the University of Wyoming Up Gallery.
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