Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
Monday 01 October, 2012
6:30pm, $0
Columbia University, Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
Interdisciplinary thinkers discuss Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, Mabel Wilson’s history of black American’s participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation exhibitions, and early black grassroots museums. Cultural critic Kobena Mercer has praised Wilson’s “highly original study of the role of world’s fairs in the making of a black public sphere†for “vividly illuminat[ing] the transition from Reconstruction to Afro-Modernity with page-turning brilliance.â€
Books available at the event by McNally Jackson Books
David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates;
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University English and Comparative Literature;
Mabel Wilson, Columbia University GSAPP;
Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University GSAPP.
Hosted by Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Books available at the event by McNally Jackson Books
David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates;
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University English and Comparative Literature;
Mabel Wilson, Columbia University GSAPP;
Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University GSAPP.
Hosted by Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.