Emma's postcard album, Black lives in the early twentieth century, Faith Mitchell
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Emma's postcard album, Black lives in the early twentieth century, Faith Mitchell
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Emma's postcard album
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1333086067
Responsibility statement
Faith Mitchell
Series statement
Atlantic migrations and the african diaspora
Sub title
Black lives in the early twentieth century
Summary
"The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album-spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma's Postcard Album-becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people "to make a way from no way." As snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture. In Emma's Postcard Album, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings, a much-neglected aspect of scholarship. Through these techniques, a riveting world we know far too little about is revealed, and we gain new insights into the perspectives and experience of African Americans-in their own words. Capping off these contributions, the text is a visual feast, illustrated with arresting images from the Golden Age of postcards as well as newspaper clippings and other archival material"--, Provided by publisher
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- African Americans + Social conditions + History -- 20th century
- African Americans in art -- 20th century
- Postcards
- African American women + History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- History
- African American women
- African Americans in art
- African Americans + History -- Pictorial works
- African American families + History -- 20th century
- United States
- Postcards -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Pictorial works
- African Americans + Social life and customs -- 20th century
- African Americans + Social life and customs
- African American families
- African Americans + Social conditions
- African Americans + History -- 20th century
- African Americans
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- African Americans + Social conditions + History -- 20th century
- African Americans in art -- 20th century
- Postcards
- African American women + History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- History
- African American women
- African Americans in art
- African Americans + History -- Pictorial works
- African American families + History -- 20th century
- United States
- Postcards -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Pictorial works
- African Americans + Social life and customs -- 20th century
- African Americans + Social life and customs
- African American families
- African Americans + Social conditions
- African Americans + History -- 20th century
- African Americans
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