Seeing in Color: Visual Culture and Racial Politics in Philadelphia (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Oct 11 - 10:00am - 11:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 404
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Seeing in color: visual culture and racial politics in Philadelphia

Session Participants:

Session Organizer: Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

Chair: Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

"If this war is to be forgotten, ...what shall men remember?": The African American presence at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition
*Susanna W. Gold (Temple University (PA))

Imprinting race: The Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop and the visual politics of race in the 1930s
*Erin Park Cohn (University of Pennsylvania (PA))

From Africa and the streets of Philadelphia: Georges Adéagbo's America in "Abraham - the Friend of God"
*Emily Hage (Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA))

Commentator: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (University of Pennsylvania (PA))