BLACK STUDENT IN A BLACK STUDIES HISTORY CLASS IN A WEST SIDE CHICAGO SCHOOL WITH HER CLASSWORK. RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN A RESURGENCE BY VARIOUS MINORITIES OF THEIR HISTORIES. PRIDE IN THEIR HERITAGE HAS LED TO CONTINUING TRADITIONS AND ASPECTS OF THEIR CULTURE WHICH ARE UNIQUE IN AMERICAN TRADITION
Featured on PDR in the collection John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
It’s hard not to read John H. White’s DOCUMERICA series as a love letter to Black Chicago. Whether capturing protesters or checkers players, concerts or chores, White’s work feels animated by a wonder and curiosity for the great breadth of stories and characters he encountered while exploring his adopted home city — “life”, as he put it in the captions to several of his images, “in all its seasons”.
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“Black student in a Black studies history class in a West Side Chicago school with...”
Artist
Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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