Histories of Art, Race and Empire: 1492-1865

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 23.01.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Intro
  2. Rationale:
  3. Content Objectives 
  4. Part 1: American Indians
  5. Part 2: Afro descended and mixed-race women
  6. Content Standards and Connection to State Requirements.
  7. Teaching Strategies for analyzing Images as Documents
  8. Classroom Activities
  9. Annotated Bibliography/Resources
  10. Complete Bibliography
  11. Notes

Clothing and Identity in Early America: Black Women and AmerIndian Men

Melissa Muntz

Published September 2023

Tools for this Unit:

Complete Bibliography

Books

Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. 2017. Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bagneris, Mia L.Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the art of Agostino Brunias. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018

Baker, Patrick L. 1994. Centering the Periphery: Chaos, Order, and the Ethnohistory of Dominica. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Berleth, Richard . 2009. Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier. New York: Black Dome Press Corp.

Blackhawk, Ned. 2016. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Butler, Jon, Helen A. Cooper, and David G. McCullough Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness : American art from the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery , 2008. 

Deetz, James. 1976. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday.

Faraday, Christina J., Tudor liveliness : vivid art in post-Reformation England. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023

Glymph, Thavolia Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Kruse, Kevin M., and Julian E. Zelizerm Eds. 2019. Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past. -3rd ed. New York: Basic Books.

McCullough, David G., Jon Butler, and Helen A Cooper Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness : American art from the Yale University art gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press, 2008

Neff, Emily Ballew, and Kaylin H. Weber.American adversaries : West and Copley in a transatlantic world. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2013

Riello, Giorgio. 2013. Cotton: The Fabric that Made the World. London: Cambridge University Press.

Truettner, William H. Painting Indians and building empires in North America, 1710-1840. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010

Web Sources

Facing History and Ourselves (2017, July 11). Inventing Black and White. Facinghistory.org. Retrieved July 17, 2023, from https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/inventing-black-white#:~:text=Soon%20after%20Bacon's%20Rebellion%20they,farmers%20and%20land%20holders%20.%20.%20 

"The Plantation System of the British West Indies." Runaway Slaves in 18th Century Britain. St Lauretia Project an Offshoot of the Leverhulme Trust, Accessed July 12, 2023. https://runaways.gla.ac.uk/minecraft/index.php/the-plantation-system-of-the-british-west-indies/.

Women and the American Story (n.d.). Fashionable Rebellion. New York Historical Society Museum and Library. Retrieved July 16, 2023, from https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/fashionable-rebellion/ 

Articles and Other

Aslakson, Kenneth.  “The ‘Quadroon- Plaçage" Myth of Antebellum New Orleans: Anglo-American (Mis)interpretations of a French-Caribbean Phenomenon” Journal of Social History, Spring 2012.  Oxford University Press.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/41678906

Axtell, James. "Who Invented Scalping." American Heritage, April 1, 1977. https://doi.org/Vol 28 Issue 3.

Davis, James F. Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition s Definition (1991) excerpt available on PBS.org https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html

Paxton, J. W. (2006). "Kinship, Communities, and Covenant Chains: Mohawks and Palatines in New York and Upper Canada, 1712–1830." (Publication No. NR18540) [Doctoral dissertation, Queen's University (Canada)]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/kinship-communities-covenant-chains-mohawks/docview/304966310/se-2. 

Tucker, Abigail. "Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World: The Watercolors that John White Produced in 1585 Gave England Its First Startling Glimpse of America." Smithsonian Magazine, December 2008 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/sketching-the-earliest-views-of-the-new-world-92306407/. 

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