Hidden Heritage. The roots of Black American painting - ACE210.3

Engravings and paintings illustrating initial consequences of slavery: men being chained, women running with their babies, men and women being punished, conditions on slave ship, slave auction. Driskell points out that families and tribal groups were split up and dispersed, and talks of cultural activities that echoed their African past and identity. Images from paintings by Palmer Hayden and from Douglas’s murals. Driskell driving along country roads. Willie Dixon’s Bring it on Home heard over. Images of lynchings, fires, etc. Mural. Photograph of black couple. Photographs of whites and black victims. Quote from James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son read over: "The past will remain horrible for as long as we refuse to assess it honestly."