The Keeper of the Images: Kwame Brathwaite's Harlem

Reynolda House, March 19, 2022

Kwame S. Brathwaite, son of the "keeper of the images" and Black Is Beautiful photographer Kwame Brathwaite, will join Corey D.B. Walker, Wake Forest University professor of the humanities, for an interdisciplinary exploration of Pan-Africanism.

This panel presentation will discuss Marcus Garvey's influence on social activism, changing conceptions of fashion and beauty, the centrality of jazz and blues to twentieth-century Black cultural identity, and more. Advance registration is required.

 

Sponsored by the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute, with support made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Bynum E. Tudor Fund for Reynolda House Museum of American Art.