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Walker --- Charles T. (Charles Thomas) --- 1858-1921

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The authors tell the story of the steamship Robert J. Walker, an early coastal survey ship for the agency that would later become the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), that sank with loss of 21 crew off the coast of New Jersey in 1860.

Shipwrecks --- Robert J. Walker (Ship) --- History.

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Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and working-class African American women. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire and a philanthropist wealthy enough to own a country estate near the Rockefellers in the prestigious New York town of Irvington-on-Hudson. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker's times. Ball analyzes Walker's remarkable acts of self-fashioning, and explores the ways that Walker (and the Walker brand) enabled a new generation of African Americans to bridge the gap between a nineteenth-century agrarian past and a twentieth-century future as urban-dwelling consumers.

Businesswomen --- Women philanthropists --- Women millionaires --- Walker, C. J., --- United States.

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Mount Olivet Baptist Church (New York --- N.Y.) --- Walker --- Charles T. (Charles Thomas) --- 1858-1921

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This volume provides an exciting opportunity to delve into the creative process of Kara Walker, one of the most celebrated artists working in the United States today. Primarily recognized for her monumental installations, Walker also works with ink, graphite and collage to create pieces that demonstrate her continued engagement with her own identity as an artist, an African American, a woman and a mother.More than 700 works on paper created between 1992 and 2020?which are reproduced in print for the first time from the artist?s own strictly guarded private archive?are collected in this volume, thus capturing Walker?s career with an unprecedented level of intimacy. Since the early 1990s, the foundation of her artistic production has been drawing and working on paper in various ways.Walker?s completed large-format pieces are presented among typewritten notes on index cards and dream journal entries; sketches and studies for pieces appear alongside collages. The result is a volume that allows readers to become eyewitnesses to the genesis of Walker?s art and the transformative power of the figures and narratives she has created over the course of her career.https://www.copyrightbookshop.be/shop/kara-walker-a-black-hole-is-everything-a-star-longs-to-be/

Art --- collages [visual works] --- drawings [visual works] --- prints [visual works] --- sexuality --- colonization --- violence --- texts [documents] --- human figures [visual works] --- gender [sociological concept] --- Walker, Kara --- African American --- #breakthecanon --- African Americans in art --- Blacks in art --- Slavery in art --- Race in art --- Silhouettes --- Racisme --- Dessin --- History --- Walker, Kara Elizabeth --- Beeldhouwkunst --- Silhouet --- Schilderkunst --- Black people in art --- kunst --- Verenigde Staten --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Afro-Amerikaanse kunst --- afro-amerikanen --- slavernij --- Walker Kara --- gender studies --- kunst en politiek --- tekenkunst --- racisme --- 741.071 WALKER --- Cut-out craft --- Portraits --- African Americans in art - Exhibitions --- Blacks in art - Exhibitions --- Slavery in art - Exhibitions --- Race in art - Exhibitions --- Silhouettes - United States - History - 21st century - Exhibitions --- Walker, Kara Elizabeth - Exhibitions --- dekolonisatie