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Perspective I What's Emerging in the Field?
Perspective: In the Time of
COVID-19 Still Black See
kYmberly Keeton
"Each body has its own art."
-Gwendolyn Brooks
The African American body is a symbol of art, curiosity, and degradation in one
breath in these United States based on history. A quick review: African American
people have had to endure a plethora of pandemics beginning with the
institution of slavery and being forced upon the waters of the Atlantic Ocean to
enter the United States in 1619 by way of the Middle Passage. It took years
before Emancipation happened because Black folks had to use their bodies as
tools of art for 400 years to prove that they were human enough for a moment.
Painting slowly, let's use the colors red, white, and blue on the canvas and spell
out these movements including Reconstruction, The Great Migration, Jim Crow,
The Civil Rights Movement and now Black Lives Matter. Noted author Ta-Nehisi
Coates in his scholarship Between the World and Me, (2015) unapologetically
exerts that African Americans have continued to be viewed by their bodies and
how much they can withstand as outcasts in society. I was taught to teach those
who do not know regardless of their race, because if they do not know the truth
about these United States then who is to blame. As a Black writer, librarian,
archivist, and gallerist my professional role in society revolves around a global
creative kaleidoscope encompassing art, books, literature, and technology.
Everything about my being has dealt with studying history, publishing, collecting,https://publications.mcn.edu/2020-scholars/perspective/
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Keeton, kYmberly. Perspective: In the Time of COVID-19 | Still Black See, text, November 7, 2021; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1874802/m1/1/?q=negro: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.