F20 Black Atlantic: Resources, Pedagogy, and Scholarship on the 18th Century Black Atlantic

Week 05: Friday, September 25: Digital Humanities, Caribbean Stuides, and Fashion

Guest: Siobhan Mei (UMass Amherst)

Reading:
Mei. Feminist Translation Matters: Reading Fashion Materiality and Revolution in the English Language Translations of Marie Chauvet's La Danse sur volcan"
Hartman. "Venus in Two Acts."
Code Noir (1685)

Johnson, Sara. “Chapter 2: “’Une et indivisible?’: The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola.” The Fear of French Negroes.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “Chapter 2: The Three Faces of Sans Souci” Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Mitchell. Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth Century France: Preface
Digital Project: Rendering Revolution: Sartorial approaches to Haitian History
Digital Project: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive, especially Nicole Aljoe’s “Early Caribbean Slave Narrative” exhibit
Digital Project: Fashioning the Self



Optional/Recommended (More to Come)

Binder, Jeffrey. “Radical Archival Practices and the Digital Humanities: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive”
Williams. Capitalism and Slavery
James. Black Jacobins
Washington Post. Historically Black
Square: "A Stain on an All-American Brand: How Brooks Brothers Once Clothed Slaves"
Square. "How the 'Underground' Costume Designer Helps the Show's Enslaved Characters Hide in Plain Sight"
Special Issue of British Art Studies. Luxury and Crisis: Redefining the British Decorative Arts

 

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