Introduction
Welcome to my thesis project: Searching for a "Black Pacific" - that is, the schema of black art production in the Pacific Northwest (specifically Vancouver) - through the pamphlet and magazine publications which promoted these people, places and events.
Maybe you are from Vancouver and are personally involved in art production around the city. Maybe you are a student exploring Scalar looking for project examples. Maybe you have been searching for the very sources my project covers!
As you will see, this project combines traditional academic paper formatting with some of the digitized sources they discuss. This project weaves together three major components; first, the history and historiography of black art in Vancouver, which will catalogue key developments in context and artistic production that lay