{"id":48108,"date":"2016-07-04T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48108"},"modified":"2016-07-04T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:25:17","slug":"drawing-black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48108","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Black History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/fall15\/drawing-black-history\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Drawing Black History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\" target=\"_blank\">Bostonia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/fall15\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/rich-barlow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rich Barlow<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Artwork by <a href=\"https:\/\/joelchristiangill.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joel Christian Gill<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/fall15\/drawing-black-history\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/wpassets\/issues\/fall15\/drawing-black-history\/img\/bessie-362.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Graphic novels bring forgotten stories to life<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Home to about 50 mixed-race descendants of a freed slave, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2012\/05\/20\/a-century-of-shame_2012-05-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malaga Island<\/a> off the coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maine\" target=\"_blank\">Maine<\/a> seemed an oasis of racial harmony in 1912. But then the state, lobbied by ostensible \u201creformers\u201d who claimed that residents were living in poverty\u2014and perhaps tempted by a land grab too good to pass up\u2014evicted the islanders. The majority who complied were the lucky ones. Those who held out were netted in the nascent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\">eugenics<\/a> fervor: declared <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feeble-minded\" target=\"_blank\">feebleminded<\/a>, they were confined and in some cases castrated.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an official apology from Maine\u2019s governor in 2010 and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5660\" target=\"_blank\">radio documentary about the case<\/a>, Malaga\u2019s story might have remained little known but for Joel Christian Gill (CFA\u201904). His graphic anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48103\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Strange Fruit<\/em><\/a>, published last year by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a>-based <a href=\"https:\/\/fulcrum.bookstore.ipgbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fulcrum<\/a>, uses comics to tell the stories of African Americans whose contributions and sufferings occupy fringes in the country\u2019s historical memory&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/fall15\/drawing-black-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing Black History Bostonia Fall 2015 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Artwork by Joel Christian Gill Graphic novels bring forgotten stories to life Home to about 50 mixed-race descendants of a freed slave, Malaga Island off the coast of Maine seemed an oasis of racial harmony in 1912. But then the state, lobbied by ostensible \u201creformers\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20],"tags":[24409,24406,18181],"class_list":["post-48108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bostonia","tag-joel-christian-gill","tag-rich-barlow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48110,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48108\/revisions\/48110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}