Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (Netherlandish, Bruges 1523-1605 Florence). Created ca. 1587-89.
This drawing is the basis of a famous copy, an engraving by Theodor Gall:
Category Archives: Geography
Geographical Imaginary (455)
A collage by Ellsworth Kelly titled “Horizontal Nude” (1974)
India Map (220/415)
Último Viaje (455)
Novae Insulae (455)
Terra Nullius (455)
The Black Atlantic (220/303)
Here is some background to our discussion about Afrofuturism, taken from a lecture I gave a couple of years ago.
Maritime Culture, America, and the Black Atlantic
“The Oceanic Revolution”: the opening of the Western Hemisphere to exploration and colonization was a world historical event. The central figures of this revolution were sailors and the enslaved.
Africa Maps (HUM220/HUM303)
Bits&Pieces (HUM225)
Narratives like The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit provide us with a basis for understanding the ways that popular culture in its most general sense– as the culture of the popular classes, i.e., the people– dramatize and question socio-historical forces.
One of the roots of the land-grab that we’ve come to call the Mexican-American War concerns the spread of chattel slavery and the maintenance of the political and economic powers of the slaver class. The Republic of Texas was founded by slave-owners who wouldn’t abide by Mexican law, which in 1829 outlawed chattel slavery.
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