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Nordic Utopia?: African Americans in the Twentieth Century

Name: Nordic Utopia?: African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Brand: University of Washington Press
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Contributors:

Leslie Anne Anderson (Editor), Ethelene Whitmire (With), Temi Odumosu (With)

Publisher:

University of Washington Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Art, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

American, History, Cultural & Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

African American & Black, European, American

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Release Date:

2024-08-13

ISBN 13:

9798987929346

Weight:

1.92 lbs

Size:

10.78 x 9.30 x 0.64 inches

Pages:

112

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Features the experiences of African American artists in Nordic Europe

During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, performing, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom to explore sexuality, and distance from Jim Crow segregation. Drawing from film, photographs, paintings, music, textiles, and dance, Nordic Utopia captures these journeys and ultimately reflects on how some African Americans have called and continue to call Nordic countries home. Calling on voices from hip-hop artist Jason Diakit? to novelist and essayist James Baldwin, this book tells how African Americans were transformed through their Nordic encounters. The authors examine how "hip-hop ethics" illuminate the dynamic meaning of material culture in contemporary Afro-Nordic lifeworlds. Documented experiences by migrant and visiting artists probe the peculiarity of being a Black person in a remote "white" place while also using these experiences to reflect on and critique American racism. The book considers what specific Nordic artifacts and materials reveal about the complexities of place-making for Black people in a region where notions of innocence, isolation, and distance from the issues of the wider world also abound.

Exhibition Dates:

National Nordic Museum, Seattle WA: March-July 2024

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison: August-November 2024

About the Author

Leslie Anne Anderson is Director of Collections, Exhibitions, and Programs at the National Nordic Museum. Contributors: Ethelene Whitmire, Temi Odumosu, and Ryan Thomas Skinner

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