Emma'S Postcard Album: Black Lives In The Early Twentieth Century (Atlantic Migrations And The African Diaspora),Used

Emma'S Postcard Album: Black Lives In The Early Twentieth Century (Atlantic Migrations And The African Diaspora),Used

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BCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winnerThe 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 albumspanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma's Postcard Albumbecomes 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, eyecatching 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 muchneglected aspect of scholarship. Through these techniques, a riveting world that is far too little known is revealed, and new insights are gained into the perspectives and experience of African Americans. 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.

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