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Part of: Telling Stories: The Rhetoric and Representation of Race and Ethnicity (22 resources )
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Telling Stories: The Rhetoric and Representation of Race and Ethnicity


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Scott W Beal
Last Updated
September 24, 2022 12:52 p.m.

22 Items in this Learning Collection
Manet's Olympia
A female nude reclining on a bed wearing one yellow slipper on her left foot, a gold bracelet on her right arm and a black ribbon tied in a bow around her neck. An African American woman in a blue dress stands behind her holding a bouquet of yellow and white flowers. A small monkey sits at the foot of the bed. All subjects look directly at the viewer.
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Untitled, Vicksburg, MS

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Untitled, Columbia, SC

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Untitled, Monroe, LA

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Margarita de Bonampak, from "Manuel Alvarez Bravo"

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Court Activities, Charleston

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Ah Puch
Bust of a figure from the chest up in three-quarters pose. The head, or perhaps a mask, is white, resembling a skull with a halo of white hair. The neck is dark brown with two white bands like chokers around it, perhaps securing the mask. The figure wears a dark red garment that is trimmed in ornate lace in white and gold. The background is a deep teal green-blue.
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Colored
An assemblage of found objects: a salvaged wood frame with wood inlay letters spelling &quot;COLORED,&quot; four portrait photographs of African American females (two photogaphs on either side of a printed poem), nine thread samples under photographs, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer&#39;s right of the frame. The poem reads:&nbsp;<br /> &quot;Light is Alright<br /> Yellow is Mellow<br /> Brown, Stick Around<br /> Black, Get Back<br /> (but black don&#39;t crack)&quot;<br /> <br /> The wood has a strong smell, may have been treated with molasses.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;
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After Manet
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Chasing a Slaver
Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.
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Joseph the Carpenter
This print shows a shipyard, with three laborers working on the hull of a large boat under a dark sky.
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Paris #206
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
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Seven Kiowah Men

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David Chun - Chinese Shrimp Camp
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Resource with 3 media
Salome (John the Baptist)
Four people are gathered around a white table in the foreground. A nude woman on the right holds the head of a man on a gray platter. The man&#39;s body is in the bottom right corner of the print with a red trail at the neck. Across from the woman is a man in a red garmet with black and yellow stripes, and a tan cap with a red and blue stripe. Across the table are two other figures and in the background to the right stand two men in blue, much smaller than the figures around the table.
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New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
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Day of All Dead

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Póvi-Támuⁿ ("Flower Morning") - San Ildefonso
This is a portrait of a young woman against a plain, dark backdrop. She wears a draped cloth garment, strands of beadwork looped around her neck. Her hair is cut in a short style with blunt, thick bangs covering her forehead. 
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Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
COMM 159: Digital Media & the City

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Created by
Germaine Halegoua
Last Updated
September 24, 2022 12:52 p.m.

38 Items in this Learning Collection
New York at Night
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
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Night Shadows

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My City
A collage of buildings and people. A speech bubble says, "My City." ONe image is of Godzilla.
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Symphony of the City (Symphony of a Great City)
Overall black, yellow, white and orange. There is a man&#39;s head with a cigarette in his mouth. He has robotic arms and there is a skyscraper in the background.
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Bar Romero, Greenwich Village
Black and white image of a night scene of a city street with a taxi pulled to the side of the curb, another coming towards it and with lights on.
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Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water
Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer&#39;s right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.
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The City of Ambition
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
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Sultana's Dream: Over the City
No. 25 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette. Three unique flying vehicles, operated by one or two people and surrounded by a flock of birds, hover in the sky over a futuristic-looking city.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.<br /> &nbsp;
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Crosstown Traffic
A night city traffic view with cars headingn to the same direction, having all the car headlights on.
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New York City
This photograph depicts a view of a city sidewalk with pedestrians walking in front of a bar. In the middle of the frame is a phone booth with a woman inside, talking on the phone.
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The Four Times of Day: Noon
This print is vertically oriented with gray markings. A cream border surrounds it and it has “NOON” written below it. The lower half of the print has a busy street scene with lots of adults and children in 18th century garb. The upper half shows the top of the buildings that line the street, including a shop, a brick building, and a church steeple in the distance.<br />
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Sultana's Dream: City in Broad Daylight
No. 4 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; Several uniquely-dressed people, some with interesting headgear, walk down a winding road toward the viewer; except for the figure in the lower left corner with their back to the viewer. In the distance, behind them, are several buildings done in varied styles of architecture, along with trees, hills and two aircraft in the sky.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.
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Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a bird’s eye view of an urban rooftop garden composed in a series of organic shapes.  Pedestrians, cars, and streets are visible below the garden.
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Wires, Santa Tereza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a view of an urban scene with telephone poles and electrical wires strung up and down a winding street.<br />  
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Broadway Melody
abstract painting, tempera on board
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Grain Elevator, Kansas City, Kansas

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Building Reflection, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

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Night-Times Square, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

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Railroad Track

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New York in Transit II

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Street Scene
This is a brightly colored oil painting of a street scene. Buildings are depicted in pink, yellow, and white.  A lavender and blue sky with white and yellow clouds makes up the background. Two women stand in the lower left corner; another woman and a black dog are seen on the right side. The ground is made up of patches of white, yellow, pink, and blue.  Thick black outlines are used throughout and the paint has been applied in a very thick and factured manner. Traces of newspaper appear to have been laid on the painting while it was still wet and became stuck and are visible in the clouds at the top and in the white portion of the central building, just under the street lamp.
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New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
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Night View Wing I

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Stakes is high
A collage drawing with "Stakes is high" in large bubble letters at the top. The bottom of the drawing is a sparse cityscape and a figure wearing a purple skimask looking at the viewer.
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When was the future?
A collage drawing with "When was the future?" in the middle of the object. The words are cut out of pictures of trees and a city's skyline. The background of the collage is the view of of a tall building and a cutout of a youth doing a handstand is placed on the balcony. A picture of a tree is included by the person.
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A New Design for TV Chair
This vertical print shows a slick advertising image in the top half with a man and a woman watching an early model television set. The woman is smoking a cigarette. A text box is inserted asking three questions. The bottom half is less slick, simply a diagram and text, some of it in a typewriter font. Text above and below asks about how soon television sets will be widely available in homes and museums. The date 1944 is included in parentheses at the top of the image.
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Urban Daydream II
This print is a colorful image of a sink filled with green water. At the center, there is a miniature boat that floats in the water. On the counter-space of the sink at the back, there sits various toiletries such as mouthwash, perfume, toothbrushes, and a razor. Almost out of the frame, a red washcloth hangs off the left edge of the sink. The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "AP 24/75" in pencil.
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From the Radio Tower, Berlin
Photograph looking straight down onto a built landscape.
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Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men&#39;s suits.
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Motion Picture (Times Square)

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City Neighborhood, from Kleine Grosz Mappe

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Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")
A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.
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No Heroes Developed
This vertical oriented print shows a robot sitting on a chair with a revolver in his right hand. 
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Wilmington, North Carolina, from "Master Prints Volume II"

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The Archeologists IV (Gli Archeologi IV); Plate VI from the suite "Metamorphosis" (Metamorphosis is underlined)

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Brainiac 5 no puede ganar contra tres maquinas
This vertically oriented print shows the cockpit of a car above, and early computers below. Between two of the computers sits a man with a chess board in front of him. Two other men look on, one having a speech balloon above his head which says "n<em>o puede ganar contra tres maquinas" or "</em>You can not win against three machines." Each machine has a speech balloon which says "Jaque."
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Watch out for miracles... new hope for better babies
A portrait image in two tones of blue printed slightly off match, showing a man at the center dressed in a white shirt, tie and slacks, with dark-rimmed glasses. The man is leaning over a automoton/robot, which is seated to the left of him. On the right and to the back, are two more standing robots. Each robot has humanoid features like a face, torso, arms, hands, legs, and feet with boots on. Two of the robots, one seated and one to the back at the center, have their internal workings revealed with their central torso panel removed, showing wires and indeterminate parts. 
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Fleetwood Cadillac Plant, from "Detroit Focus 2000"

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22 Items in this Learning Collection
Manet's Olympia
A female nude reclining on a bed wearing one yellow slipper on her left foot, a gold bracelet on her right arm and a black ribbon tied in a bow around her neck. An African American woman in a blue dress stands behind her holding a bouquet of yellow and white flowers. A small monkey sits at the foot of the bed. All subjects look directly at the viewer.
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Untitled, Vicksburg, MS

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Untitled, Columbia, SC

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Untitled, Monroe, LA

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Margarita de Bonampak, from "Manuel Alvarez Bravo"

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Court Activities, Charleston

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Ah Puch
Bust of a figure from the chest up in three-quarters pose. The head, or perhaps a mask, is white, resembling a skull with a halo of white hair. The neck is dark brown with two white bands like chokers around it, perhaps securing the mask. The figure wears a dark red garment that is trimmed in ornate lace in white and gold. The background is a deep teal green-blue.
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Colored
An assemblage of found objects: a salvaged wood frame with wood inlay letters spelling &quot;COLORED,&quot; four portrait photographs of African American females (two photogaphs on either side of a printed poem), nine thread samples under photographs, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer&#39;s right of the frame. The poem reads:&nbsp;<br /> &quot;Light is Alright<br /> Yellow is Mellow<br /> Brown, Stick Around<br /> Black, Get Back<br /> (but black don&#39;t crack)&quot;<br /> <br /> The wood has a strong smell, may have been treated with molasses.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;
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After Manet
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Chasing a Slaver
Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.
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Joseph the Carpenter
This print shows a shipyard, with three laborers working on the hull of a large boat under a dark sky.
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Paris #206
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
Collection Object
Seven Kiowah Men

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David Chun - Chinese Shrimp Camp
;
Resource with 3 media
Salome (John the Baptist)
Four people are gathered around a white table in the foreground. A nude woman on the right holds the head of a man on a gray platter. The man&#39;s body is in the bottom right corner of the print with a red trail at the neck. Across from the woman is a man in a red garmet with black and yellow stripes, and a tan cap with a red and blue stripe. Across the table are two other figures and in the background to the right stand two men in blue, much smaller than the figures around the table.
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New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
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Day of All Dead

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Póvi-Támuⁿ ("Flower Morning") - San Ildefonso
This is a portrait of a young woman against a plain, dark backdrop. She wears a draped cloth garment, strands of beadwork looped around her neck. Her hair is cut in a short style with blunt, thick bangs covering her forehead. 
Collection Object
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media

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New York in Transit I

Accession Number
2000/2.127

Title
New York in Transit I

Artist(s)
Jacob Lawrence

Object Creation Date
1998

Medium & Support
screenprint on paper

Dimensions
12 1/16 in x 36 1/4 in (30.64 cm x 92.07 cm);25 5/8 in x 48 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in (65.09 cm x 123.51 cm x 4.13 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis

Subject matter
This print is based on Lawrence's design for a colorful 36 foot long mosiac mural in the bustling Times Square and 42nd Street subway station in New York City. Subway poles divide the print into sections, giving this print a cinematic feel which would be heightened if a viewer was walking along side the mosaic and watching it go by. Jacob Lawrence is one of a handful of well-known, successful African American artists, and is best known for his Migration of the Negro series of paintings which launched his career. Several panels from the Migration series also feature trains. Lawrence was the first African American artist to be represented by a major commercial gallery. Although he was born in New Jersey, and then lived in Pennsylvania, Lawrence moved to Harlem when he was 13, and the culture of Harlem of the 1930s and 1940s shaped the artist's work.

Physical Description
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
African American
airplanes
basketball (court ball games)
fish (animals)
murals (general, decorations on wall)
musicians
subway stations

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