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

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Notes

1 Faraday, Christina “Epilogue,” Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England (2023), 147-148.

2 White’s words to describe the images claimed he had illustrated “sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth” Faraday Tudor Livliness, 158.

3 Faraday Tudor Livliness, 158.  and Miller, Angela L., Janet Catherine Berlo, Bryan Jay Wolf, and Jennifer L Roberts American encounters : art, history, and cultural identity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2008, 27.

4 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/. 

5 Faraday Tudor Livliness, 145 

6 Truettner, William H. Painting Indians and building empires in North America, 1710-1840. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010 78-81.

7 Neff, Emily Ballew, and Martin Postle American adversaries : West and Copley in a transatlantic world. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2013, 68.

8 Neff, American Adversaries, 73.

9 Neff, American Adversaries, 70.

10Berleth, Richard, Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & The American Revolution on New York’s Frontier, New York: Black Dome, 2010, 96. and 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., 17 and Truettner, Painting Indians and building empires in North America, 81.

11Butler, 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.  49-51

12 Blackhawk, Ned, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, New Haven and New York: Yale University Press, 2023, 64-69

13  Buck, Joe Seneca Gustoweh, Catalogue Number 10:19e, Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, NY https://www.iroquoismuseum.org/product-page/seneca-gustoweh-10-19e.

14 Berleth, Richard.  Bloody Mohawk, 142-143

15 Butler, Jon, et al. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 49-51

16 Truettner, Painting Indians and building empires in North America, 77-81.

17 Truettner, Painting Indians and building empires in North America,88.

18 Glymph, Thavolia Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 217

19 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

20Katzew, Ilona (22 April 2015) “Why an Albino? Some Notes on our New Casta Painting by Miguel Cabrera”, https://unframed.lacma.org/2015/04/22/why-albino-some-notes-our-new-casta-painting-miguel-cabrera

21 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 

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

23 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/ 

24  Ibid.

25 Baumgartner, Alice South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.  New York: Basic Books, 2020, 79-81

26 Riello, Giorgio. Cotton: The Fabric that Made the World. London: Cambridge University Press. 2013, 201-202.

27 Baker, Patrick L. Centering the Periphery: Chaos, Order, and the Ethnohistory of Dominica. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.1994, 52  

28 Ibid.

29 Bagneras, Mia Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the art of  Augustino Brunias, London: Manchester University Press. 2018. 139-140

30 Glymph, Thavolia. Out of the House of Bondage,  53,

31 Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World. Durham: Duke University Press. 2017,  96-100.

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