The Edgeworth Family Album that was this Spotlight Exhibit is an unusual collection of drawings and sketches by members of the remarkable Edgeworth family of County Longford, Ireland. This exhibit was curated by Rachel Bohlmann (American History Librarian and Curator of North Americana).įor more information about the book of cartoons featured in the exhibit, read the post on the RBSC blog. This unit saw a year of active service in Italy from 1943 to 1944. The last piece is a hand-made directory for members of a unit in the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the US Army. As a result of pressure from sources like this one, eventually 600,000 African American women entered wartime industries. The second is a scathing report by the National Urban League on racial discrimination within the defense industry, which hit African American women hard. The first is a book of cartoons created by an executive secretary to a Rear Admiral, in which she pokes fun at her superiors and war-time working conditions. Recent acquisitions to the library's specialized collections in American history focus on women during World War Two (1939-1945), offering markedly different perspectives on how American women contributed to the war effort. October-November 2022 | "Rosie the Riveters with a Vengeance"Īnd Other Wartime Contributions by American Women He explored multiple aspects of American literary creation, including how African American content has been embodied in dust jacket and cover designs, illustrations, the style of type and bindings, and the overall production quality. Tuesday, September 19 at 4:00pm | Centering African American Writing in American Literature lectureĪmerican Studies Professor Korey Garibaldi drew on his new book, Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America (Princeton, 2023), and on recent library acquisitions to discuss how, during the middle of the twentieth century, modern American literature and its production were interracial. This exhibit was curated by Korey Garibaldi (Assistant Professor of American Studies) and Rachel Bohlmann (Curator of North Americana). This spotlight presented examples of mid-century books by African Americans whose designsfrom dust jackets to illustrations to bindings and paper qualityconveyed their centrality in publishing and American literature. August-September 2023 | Centering African American Writing in American Literatureĭecades before Alex Haley's Roots swept to number one on the New York Times Best Seller List in 1976, writing and editing produced by African Americans was central to twentieth-century American publishing.
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