That’s Not Your Story: Faith Ringgold Publishing on Cloth
Faith Ringgold’s artistic career, which now spans more than five decades, includes activism, writing, as well as performance art and the creation of paintings, political posters and quilts. Born in Harlem, New York, in , Ringgold is an African-American artist who has been acknowledged in the context of the United States by art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson as “one of the earliest feminists to incorporate textiles into her practice.”1 Her published writing includes numerous children’s books and a memoir, We Flew Over the Bridge (). Despite enjoying considerable acclaim, Ringgold’s own acknowledgement that “I can’t get through the world without recognizing that race and sex influence everything I do in my life” presents us with the intersectional politics that have long impacted her career.2 In this writing I move away from some of the more well-rehearsed aspects of Ringgold’s career as an activist,3 painter,4 and performance artist,5 to focus on one specific aspect of her artistic practice: the relationship between text and textile found in Ringgold’s storytelling quilts, and the events that led her to use text
Unweaving Sven Beckert&#;s "Empire of Cotton: A Global History"
Pause for a moment while reading this review and check out the inside collar of your shirt or blouse. There's a good chance that the garment you're wearing is not only made out of cotton but was made in a country other than the one you're living in: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, Guatemala, or somewhere else with appropriately low wages. Cotton, in short, is so much a part of our daily lives that its ubiquity as an industrial good and its central role in global trade are invisible. In an age of smart phones and Dreamliners, it's easy to forget how humble cotton remains one of the most valuable and widely traded goods on the planet.
It's easy, too, to forget that this plant has a history that is in large part the history of global capitalism–easy, that is, until the recent publication of Sven Beckert'sEmpire of Cotton, published in late by Random House. Beckert, originally from Germany and the co-director of Harvard University's Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, was already well-known to many American colleagues as a historian of capitalism. His The Monied Metropolis was a key early work in a
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York,on the New York Times’ Project. Oakesis the author of two books which have won the prestigious Lincoln Prize: The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of anti-slavery Politics (); and Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, – (). His most recent book is The Scorpion’s Sting: anti-slavery and the Coming of the Civil War ().
Q. Can you discuss some of the recent literature on slavery and capitalism, which argues that chattel slavery was, and is, the decisive feature of capitalism, especially American capitalism? I am thinking in particular of the recent books by Sven Beckert, Ed Baptist and Walter Johnson. This seems to inform the contribution to the Project by Matthew Desmond.
A. Collectively their work has prompted some very strong criticism from scholars in the field. My concern is that by avoiding some of the basic analytical questions, most of the scholars have backed into a neo-liberal e
Interview with Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa
Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa have won this year’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for their fantastic book, Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire (Oakland: University of California Press, ). Gunja SenGupta is Professor of History at Brooklyn College, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her current research interests lie in comparative slavery; nineteenth-century US history; slavery/abolition in the Indian Ocean; sectional conflict; and African American and women’s history. Her first book, For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas (), dealt with sectional conflict and consensus. In From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, – (), she explored welfare debates as sites for negotiating identities of race, gender, and nation. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves is her third (co-authored) book. Awam Ampka is Professor of Drama and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and currently Dean of Arts and Humanities at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He is the au
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