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Film, Video African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community

Summary

  • African American artisans utilize ancient skills and innovative technologies to create dolls and puppets that are both whimsical and starkly serious. Their creations, incorporationg clay, textiles, wood, glass and found objects, embrace the somber reality of African American experiences and optimism for a boundless future.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2020-02-18.

Notes

  • -  Kibibi Ajanku, Paula Whaley, Cynthia Sands, Linda Kato, Francine Haskins, Deborah R. Grayson, Schroeder Cherry, Camila Bryce-Laporte, Imani W. Russell.
  • -  Recorded on 2020-02-18.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697293

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-18, 2020. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697293/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2020) African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-18. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697293/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-18, 2020. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697293/>.