Seneca Villages
Author : George Stillwell Conover
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : George Stillwell Conover
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801497513
Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.
Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781608981977
"Poetry illustrated in the poet's own words--with brief prose descriptions of what she sees inside her work--this ... collection takes readers back in time and deep into the mind's eye of Marilyn Nelson ... [who] draws upon history, and her ... imagination, to revive the long lost community of Seneca Village"--Jacket.
Author : Hope Lourie Killcoyne
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781893110021
In Seneca Village, a thriving neighborhood of African Americans and recent immigrants in the middle of New York City in the 1850s, friends Kayla and Sooncy face separation when the city announces that by eminent domain it plans to take their land to build Central Park.
Author : Alexander McGinn Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0231543905
Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.
Author : Arthur Caswell Parker
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Seneca Indians
ISBN :
Author : Alex Zamalin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231547250
Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of the possible. In Black Utopia, Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of social transformation and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures associated with racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture. Black Utopia spans black nationalist visions of an ideal Africa, the fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sun Ra’s cosmic mythology of alien abduction. Zamalin casts Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler as political theorists and reflects on the antiutopian challenges of George S. Schuyler and Richard Wright. Their thought proves that utopianism, rather than being politically immature or dangerous, can invigorate political imagination. Both an inspiring intellectual history and a critique of present power relations, this book suggests that, with democracy under siege across the globe, the black utopian tradition may be our best hope for combating injustice.
Author : Ian Alteveer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588397459
Seneca Village—a vibrant nineteenth-century community of predominantly Black landowners and tenants—flourished just west of The Met's current location until the city used eminent domain to seize the land in 1857, displacing its residents to make room for the construction of Central Park. The Met's latest Bulletin, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, imagines a different history in the form of a new type of installation that departs from traditionally Eurocentric period displays to present a fictional but resonant domestic space. Texts by Ian Alteveer, Hannah Beachler, Michelle Commander, and Sarah Lawrence honor the real, lived history of the Seneca Village residents, while also exploring works by Black creators from the eighteenth century to the present day through the empowering lens of Afrofuturism. Including images of new works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Roberto Lugo, and Cyrus Kabiru, as well as an original graphic novella by New York Times bestselling author and illustrator John Jennings, this publication foregrounds generations of Black creativity and looks forward to a resilient future.
Author : Michael A. Leeson
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Seneca County (Ohio)
ISBN :