Tomashi Jackson’s Bookshelf
Jackson's artistic practice is heavily research based, often building on or referencing key texts from which she draws information and inspiration. Explore some of the books that have influenced Jackson’s work.
Tufts Resources
Brown V. Board of Education by
The 1954 US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education legally ended state-mandated racial segregation in primary and secondary education and opened the way for the dismantling of the segregation of all public facilities. This book allows primary documents to speak for themselves and also offers a general introduction and extensive commentary of each primary source. Emphasis is not only on the decision itself but on the internal working of the High Court and on the nature of constitutional interpretation. For this fiftieth anniversary edition, Whitman (Towson University) includes a new preface.
Call Number: Tisch: KF4155 .B758 2004
Building the Great Society by
Lyndon B. Johnson's (LBJ) towering political skills and his ambitious slate of liberal legislation are the stuff of legend in America: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and environmental reform. But what happened after the bills passed? One man could not and did not go it alone.
Call Number: Tisch: E846 .Z44 2018
Interaction of Color by
A luxurious two-volume edition with the complete original plates, text, and commentary "Absolutely stunning."--Felix Salmon, Reuters Josef Albers's masterwork, Interaction of Color, is one of the most influential books on color ever published. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers's unique approach to complex principles. This beautiful edition brings Interaction back into classrooms and studios and onto bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. It replicates Albers's revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as color relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of color, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of color. Also included for the first time are studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist's students in the early 1960s. This celebration of Albers's legendary achievements is an essential addition to any serious art library. Published in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Call Number: SMFA and Tisch: ND1489 .A4 2009
In the Break by
Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on "The Burton Greene Affair," exploring the tangled relationship between black avant-garde in music and literature in the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of a distinct form of black cultural nationalism, and the complex engagement with and disavowal of homoeroticism that bridges the two. Fred Moten focuses in particular on the brilliant improvisatory jazz of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and others, arguing that all black performance--culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself--is improvisation. For Moten, improvisation provides a unique epistemological standpoint from which to investigate the provocative connections between black aesthetics and Western philosophy. He engages in a strenuous critical analysis of Western philosophy (Heidegger, Kant, Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Derrida) through the prism of radical black thought and culture. As the critical, lyrical, and disruptive performance of the human, Moten's concept of blackness also brings such figures as Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx, Cecil Taylor and Samuel R. Delany, Billie Holiday and William Shakespeare into conversation with each other. Stylistically brilliant and challenging, much like the music he writes about, Moten's wide-ranging discussion embraces a variety of disciplines--semiotics, deconstruction, genre theory, social history, and psychoanalysis--to understand the politicized sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, underpinning black radicalism. In the Break is the inaugural volume in Moten's ambitious intellectual project-to establish an aesthetic genealogy of the black radical tradition
Call Number: Tisch and ebook: E185 .M895 2003
Parable of the Talents by
Lauren Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president.
Call Number: Tisch: PS3552.U827 P38 1998
The Park and the People by
Traces the history of New York's Central Park, describing its creation and the political, social, and cultural changes that have shaped its development.
Call Number: Tisch: F128.65.C3 R67 1992
Policing the Crisis by
1. The social history of a 'Moral Panic' -- 2. The origins of social control -- 3. The social production of news -- 4. Balancing accounts: cashing in on Handsworth -- 5. Orchestrating public opinion -- 6. Explanation and idelogies of crime -- 7. Crime, law and the State -- 8. The law-and-order society: the exhaustion of 'consent' -- 9. The law-and-order society: towards the 'exceptional state' -- 10. The politics of 'mugging'
Call Number: Tisch: HV6665.G7 P64 1978b
White Flight by
The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms. Challenging the conventional wisdom that white flight meant nothing more than a literal movement of whites to the suburbs, this book argues that it represented a more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, Kruse demonstrates that traditional elements of modern conservatism, such as hostility to the federal government and faith in free enterprise, underwent important transformations during the postwar struggle over segregation. Likewise, white resistance gave birth to several new conservative causes, like the tax revolt, tuition vouchers, and privatization of public services. Tracing the journey of southern conservatives from white supremacy to white suburbia, Kruse locates the origins of modern American politics.
Call Number: Tisch and ebook: F294.A89 A233 2005
