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400: A Collective Flight of Memory

400: A Collective Flight of Memory 128 • southerncultures.org // LINES DRAWN A Collective Flight of Memory N A 1619 LETTER to the treasurer of the Virginia Company of London, Jamestown colonist John Rolfe recorded the arrival of “20. and odd negroes” off the coast of Virginia. You can go to the beach where the ships arrived and stand in the same sand Iunder the same sky and look at the same ocean that those enslaved Africans witnessed. There is a timelessness to that moment. There is a connection to a cultural memory that has been passed down. Now it is 2019. I want to discuss the black American experience, but it is not my story to tell alone. The exhibition 400: A Collective Flight of Memory was first shown in Atlanta, Georgia, and made in conversation and collaboration with black artists of the diaspora. Conversation is necessary to begin to understand the breadth of the black American expe- rience. The stories that other people tell provide perspective. The experiences of other black Americans inform my understanding of what is possible—whether it’s the story of black people who escaped the racial terrorism of the South or the Black Panthers’ food program or a black business http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

400: A Collective Flight of Memory

Southern Cultures , Volume 25 (4) – Nov 27, 2019

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University of North Carolina Press
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128 • southerncultures.org // LINES DRAWN A Collective Flight of Memory N A 1619 LETTER to the treasurer of the Virginia Company of London, Jamestown colonist John Rolfe recorded the arrival of “20. and odd negroes” off the coast of Virginia. You can go to the beach where the ships arrived and stand in the same sand Iunder the same sky and look at the same ocean that those enslaved Africans witnessed. There is a timelessness to that moment. There is a connection to a cultural memory that has been passed down. Now it is 2019. I want to discuss the black American experience, but it is not my story to tell alone. The exhibition 400: A Collective Flight of Memory was first shown in Atlanta, Georgia, and made in conversation and collaboration with black artists of the diaspora. Conversation is necessary to begin to understand the breadth of the black American expe- rience. The stories that other people tell provide perspective. The experiences of other black Americans inform my understanding of what is possible—whether it’s the story of black people who escaped the racial terrorism of the South or the Black Panthers’ food program or a black business

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 27, 2019

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