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Title: Vintage Postcards from the African World
Condition: New
Subtitle: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play
Author: Jessica B. Harris
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781604735666
ISBN: 9781604735666
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Architecture & Antiques
Release Date: 31/05/2020
Description: For over forty years, professor and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris has collected postcards depicting Africans and their descendants in the American diaspora. They are presented for the first time in this exquisite volume. Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play brings together more than 150 images, providing a visual document of more than a century of work in agricultural and culinary pursuits and joy in entertainments, parades, and celebrations.

Organized by geography - Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States - as well as by the types of scenes depicted - the farm, the garden, and the sea; the marketplace; the vendors and the cooks; leisure, entertainments, and festivities - the images capture the dignity of the labors of everyday life and the pride of festive occasions. Superb and rare images demonstrate everything from how Africans and their descendants dressed to what tools they used to how their entertainments provided relief from toil.

Three essays accompany the postcards, one of which details Harris's collection and the collecting process. A second presents suggestions on how to interpret the cards. A final essay gives brief information on the history of postcards and postcard dating and its increasing use and value to scholars.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 231mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 875g
Book Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora
Release Year: 2020

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