Social Studies
ESSAY
Patterns can be political. Graffiti can be political… so are Billie Holiday’s vocal motifs, Kendrick Lamar’s writing and Nina Simone’s repetitive chord structures.
Roberto Lugo merges these traditions of patterned protest.
Research how patterns were used historically as forms of resistance:
African kente cloth
Indigenous beadwork
quilts used in the Underground Railroad mythology
graffiti as territorial language
musical patterns in spirituals, jazz, and hip-hop
Create a comparative cultural history essay looking at two of the patterns in history and two of the patterns in Lugo’s work
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By Jordana Moore Saggese (2014)
Scholarly exploration of Basquiat’s coded imagery and racial politics.m description -
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