Tag: Booker T Washington
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We Need More Booker T. Washington
As a history teacher, I made sure to excerpts from Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, “Up From Slavery,” into the curriculum. It is of course a fascinating and enlightening study of one boy’s rise out of slavery to become one of the foremost scholars and respected leaders in American history. Now his views did not come…
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History: Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery”
Booker T. Washington’s autobiography “Up from Slavery” is the classic look at post-slavery, post-Civil War America that is both instructive, surprising, and insightful for our modern society. Washington was a young boy when he received his freedom after the war, and he had the insatiable desire for learning. He would let nothing stop him, no…
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Art History Article Abstract: Art and Race in Romare Bearden’s “Projections”
A little art and academia today: Glazer, Lee Stephens. “Signifying Identity: Art and Race in Romare Bearden’s Projections.” Art Bulletin 76.3 (September 1994): 411-26. Lee Stephens Glazer shows how in the 1964 exhibition of images entitled Projections, Romare Bearden builds on familiar images from art history in order to show an African-American culture that is…
Author Mark W Sasse 