1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
1948 Retrospective. South Philly. by Huewayne Watson
I hear folks talking about this event from sociology to History and back. And that’s part of the politics of this event- to have folks talking about race, space, and place at CU and NYC in ways and at times that they might not otherwise. People of color, so crunched in the physical plant of Manhattan and NYC, desperately need shared spaces and moments of simultaneity. As the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere teaches, people need both to organize revolutions. Stealing away in the interstitial spaces, the swamps and woods and importantly using local knowledge that the land’s indigenous inhabitants taught, black people organized revolutions in a scale from individual maroons, to whole maroon states, and to successful total revolution in Haiti. It is in this radical tradition of reorganizing space to reorganize time that we convene on Friday.
Final call for submissions to our collective archive: Send photos, poems, letters, sources from Columbia University and NYC history. Submit them to Romeo Guzman and J.T. Roane at romeo.guzman@gmail.com and jtroane@gmail.com.
Also bring artifacts and archival entries to the event itself.
Meditations on the body
Our bodies can long for the shock of a plunge in the cool waves of the Caribbean, a memory with great grandmother from days of being a yout. Our bodies can scratch that yearning with an early morning cold shower and still not recall that even across the space and time divides, we embody practices that pay hommage to the sea and to the spirits that dwell there within. Bodies can remember across generational fissures in conscious thought. They are more than mere machines, calculable and perfectable, though they too bare the marks of discipline and scientific management. They are vehicles of long memory. It is with this understanding that we need to reclaim our bodies out of the discourses of genetics, which abandons our palpable and embodied histories and presents for evolutionary pasts and techno-scientific futures. We need to fight for health, not in the thin sense posited by practitioners of biomedicine, which can only account for what Wende Elizabeth Marshall calls the organic temporal body, but in the deep and long sense.
Black and Brown at CU: Towards an Archive and Beyond a Gallery. (Romeo Guzman of the South El Monte Arts Posse, a group of radical artists of color in LA, coordinated these photos which I shot). This is a shot of Dominique.
Black and Brown and Blue at CU: Towards an Archive and Beyond a Gallery.(Romeo Guzman of the South El Monte Arts Posse, a group of radical artists of color in LA, coordinated these photos which I shot). This is a shot of George.
Black and Brown and Blue at CU: Towards an Archive and Beyond a Gallery. (Romeo Guzman of the South El Monte Arts Posse, a group of radical artists of color in LA, coordinated these photos which I shot). This is also a shot of Romeo
Black and Brown at CU: Towards an Archive and Beyond a Gallery. (Romeo Guzman of the South El Monte Arts Posse, a group of radical artists of color in LA, coordinated these photos which I shot)
Black and Brown and Blue at CU: Towards an Archive and Beyond a Gallery
