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Subject(s)

• Collective memory—North America [Browse]
• African Americans—History [Browse]
• Gardens—South Carolina—Charleston—Design [Browse]
• Charleston (S.C.)—History [Browse]
• International African American Museum [Browse]

Publisher

• Monacelli Press [Browse]

Author of introduction, etc

• Matthews, Tonya Maria [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Informational works [Browse]

Notes

Includes loose sheet between unnumbered pages 4 and 5 describing this book as "the first publication to document the International African American Museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio".

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword: reckoning: a time to fly / Tonya M. Matthews, PhD
• Introduction / Walter Hood. Journey to Charleston. The middle passage / Bernard E. Powers Jr.
• The door of no return / Chinwe Ohajuruka
• Hidden in plain sight: making visible Gullah Geechee / Michael Allen
• Bridgetown port city / Rhoda Green
• Journey to freedom: the Lowcountry's other Atlantic crossing / Bernard E. Powers Jr.
• Documenting Charleston and the Lowcountry / Lewis Watts. Views of Charleston. Photographs / by Lewis Watts. History of Charleston. Repressed memories / Dell Upton
• "Where have I seen these faces before?" / Nathaniel Robert Walker
• A walk through the garden and beyond / Robert R. Macdonald
• Remembering the ancestors / Louise Bernard
• Respect for my heritage / Jonathan Green. On this site: photographs from the African Ancestors Garden. History and memory at the International African American Museum. Our ancestors' garden / Walter Hood
• A story told in this order / Jonathan Moody
• The threshold / Matteo Milani
• Spectral nature / Mabel O. Wilson
• In the spirit of the garden: a reflection on nature, culture, and reconciliation / Paul Peters
• Facing Africa, facing America / Walter Hood, Matteo Milani, and Guy Nordenson in conversation. Epilogue / Walter Hood.

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ISBN

• 9781580935845
• 1580935842

OCLC

1453852655

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