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Older documentation of the settlement\/relocation experience provides a vision, partially romanticized, of occupants of “Indian Territory” which often conclude with colonial conquest, or include accounts of white settlement that slight their own experience and suffering. This text employs an anthropological framework that examines lived experience, nuanced and intersecting relationships, and histories as they took place in specific work contexts and spaces in Oklahoma, providing an account of interactions among settlers, African Americans, and the Osage in the voices of those who were there. It argues that identities are mutually arising, even in the context of oppression and violence, and that architecture, art, body ornamentation, sacred objects, ceremonies, and performances-as well as exhibition practices-reflect such intersectional cultures and identities.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50364898083089,"sku":"CIN0786495820G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52589520257297,"sku":"NLS9780786495825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0786495820.jpg?v=1751232699"},{"product_id":"art-of-richard-mayhew-book-janet-berry-hess-9780786460502","title":"The Art of Richard Mayhew","description":"African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden's group, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated with Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Bearden, and formed alliances with such African American artists as Faith Ringgold, Norman Lewis, Ed Clark, and Emma Amos; his work is exhibited in major collections and museums throughout the world. 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With decolonization, Africa was thrust into nation building and into the related process of negotiating its cultures, integrating modernism while simultaneously sustaining regional traditions, and thereby producing a uniquely transitional art.     This work examines the complexity of popular artistic culture in the era of African nationalism, with a special focus on the influential independence era in Ghana. Chapters One and Two consider the ideologies of the Convention People's Party and the National Liberation Movement in Ghana and their respective effects on artistic production. Chapters Three through Six discuss the relationship between architecture, museum exhibitions, and political displays and growing nationalist ideologies, revealing the extent to which African art continues to be a medium for political, social, and historical commentary. 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