亚伦·道格拉斯与黑人生活的方方面面*

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY OCTOBER Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1162/octo_a_00411
Leah Dickerman
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1934年,亚伦·道格拉斯为曼哈顿135街的分馆,即现在的朔姆堡黑人文化研究中心创作了一幅史诗般的四幅壁画系列《黑人生活的方方面面》(1934)。这些小组响应了美国第一个联邦支持艺术的重大项目发出的呼吁,代表“一个美国场景”。在这些小组中,道格拉斯分四个阶段和两次大规模移民追踪了非裔美国人的历史轨迹:从非洲到美国的奴役;通过解放和重建;进入现代的吉姆·克劳南方;然后向北迁移到哈莱姆区。道格拉斯构建的叙事无论是在历史上还是在黑人眼中都是非凡的。这篇文章探讨了道格拉斯对黑人生活中尖锐而研究不足的方面的研究是如何通过十年来的丰富对话形成的,这些对话涉及在美国黑人意味着什么,如何理解“非裔美国人”中的“非洲人”,以及一个由思想家、活动家、,艺术家包括杜波依斯;全国有色人种协进会联合创始人、《危机》杂志联合编辑、社会学家查尔斯·S·约翰逊;诗人活动家詹姆斯·韦尔登·约翰逊;藏书家阿图罗·朔姆伯格;和哲学家评论家阿兰·洛克。在这种背景下审视道格拉斯的视觉叙事,可以深入了解档案馆建设、艺术创作、历史写作和批评的平行实践是如何结合在一起的,不仅塑造了美国的愿景,而且还支持了通过散居地构建的黑人现代主义模式。
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Aaron Douglas and Aspects of Negro Life∗
In 1934, Aaron Douglas created an epic four-panel mural series, Aspects of Negro Life (1934), for the branch library on 135th Street in Manhattan, now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The panels answered a call, issued by the first major program for federal support of the arts in the United States, to represent “an American scene.” In them, Douglas traced the trajectory of African American history in four stages and across two mass migrations: from Africa into enslavement in America; through Emancipation and Reconstruction; into the modern Jim Crow South; and then northward with the Great Migration to Harlem itself. The narrative Douglas constructed was remarkable in both its historical sweep and as a story of America seen through Black eyes. This essay explores how Douglas's approach to the trenchant and understudied Aspects of Negro Life panels was shaped by rich conversations across a decade-about what it meant to be Black in America, how the “African” in “African-American” was to be understood, and what a distinctly African-American modernism might be-with an interdisciplinary nexus of thinkers, activists, and artists that included W. E. B. Du Bois; a co-founder of the NAACP and co-editor of the Crisis, sociologist Charles S. Johnson; poet-activist James Weldon Johnson; bibliophile Arturo Schomburg; and philosopher-critic Alain Locke. Looking at Douglas's visual narrative in this context offers insight into how parallel practices of archive-building, art making, history writing, and criticism came together not only to shape a vision of America but also to champion a model of Black modernism framed through diaspora.
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