Contents
Part One: Migrations and Meanings in Art 5
8. Barbadian Spirits—Altar for My Grandmother (Ottalie Adalese Dodds Maxwell, 1892–1991) 43
9. Notes from an Undisclosed Location: Someplace in the Mojave Desert, California, United States 47
11. Sweet Milk in the Badlands. 57
12. Shrine for Girls: Social Justice and Aesthetic Responsibilities 61
14. NormaNamesake/The Choice 69
Part Two: Responses in Art History and Art Criticism 73
16. Blue and White Forever: Embodying Race and Gender in Clay 77
17. Radically Sustained Care: Chandra McCormick’s Katrina Displacement as a Mother and an Artist 87
18. Carrie Mae Weems—Making Points and Changing Views 99
19. Nuyorican Abstract: Thinking through Candida Alvarez and Glendalys Medina 107
20. Joy Gregory: A Woman on the Go! 117
21. Reading against the Grain of the Black Madonna: Black Motherhood, Race and Religion 135
22. Back Home: Lessons from the Pandemic on Care, Gender and Justice 157
23. Requiem for a Drink of Water 165
25. The ‘New’ Hollywood and Beyond: Women, Migration, and Cultural Victimhood 171
28. Being Woke: Visualizing Solidarity and Resistance 203
Part Four: Fragmented Memories 211
29. A Work from Sorrow: The PEN International Women’s Manifesto 215
31. Instants: Fragments of a Return 233
32. Reflections on Migrations and Border Crossings, Destinations and Destinies 239
34. Sankofa and the Art of Archiving Black Atlantic Migrations 259
35. ‘These Bones Gonna Rise Again’: A Womanist Reclamation 281
36. Being Beyond—Aesthetics of Resistance: Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach 285
38. She Carried with Her Neither Memory Nor Archive 305
39. Meaning and Roots in Copper: Winifred Mason in New York and Haiti 313
40. Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South 323