6th Edition of The Kinsey Collection Coffee Table Book is available now!

The Kinsey African American Art and History Collection

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection - 6th Edition

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection - 6th Edition

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The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey – Where Art and History Intersect, now in its 6th edition is a 360-page must read, that tells the story of the African American experience from 1595-present through original art, artifacts, and historical documents. One of the few published works that includes many overlooked and often untold stories of African American achievement and contribution, The Kinsey Collection makes an excellent teaching tool, gift, or resource for personal discovery and inspiration. The book includes works of art by important African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Artis Lane, William H. Johnson and Henry O. Tanner; as well as historical documents from the seventeenth century and artifacts by Frederick Douglass, Phyllis Wheatley, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Alain Locke, Malcolm X and many others.

This incredible book serves as the companion to The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection exhibit. The Kinsey Collection exhibit and book has been adopted by the Florida Department of Education to develop African American history curriculum for grades K-12, in 11 subject matters, throughout the state. That curriculum is currently being increased and updated with the goal of expanding to school districts across the country, with great progress being made in California, with the support of the California Department of Education and Superintendents statewide.


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The Myth of Absence Tee
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The Myth of Absence Tee

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100% Cotton Short Sleeved T-shirt.

The Myth of Absence

In American history, as in American life, Black Americans are invisible presences. They are not seen, not because of their absence but because of the presence of a myth that prepares and requires their absence. The myth of absence, which expresses this idea and intention, operates not by misinterpretation and slander but by silence and exclusion.

By simply not mentioning certain realities and by removing Black actors from scenes in which they played supporting and sometimes starring roles, the manipulators of the myth change the color of the past and control perceptions and acts in the present. It is not by accident, therefore, that the dominant images of popular history, the images of Minutemen, Pilgrims, Cowboys and Soldiers in Blue, are white images. But these images, which are the staples of mass media, are selections from a multicolored whole which included both Black and white actors. And to grasp the American experience in its fullness, we have to remember that Blacks were present and acting at almost every major event in American history. 

 Lerone Bennett Jr., American (1928–2018)

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The Myth of Absence Hoody
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100% Cotton Hooded Sweatshirt. 

The Myth of Absence

In American history, as in American life, Black Americans are invisible presences. They are not seen, not because of their absence but because of the presence of a myth that prepares and requires their absence. The myth of absence, which expresses this idea and intention, operates not by misinterpretation and slander but by silence and exclusion.

By simply not mentioning certain realities and by removing Black actors from scenes in which they played supporting and sometimes starring roles, the manipulators of the myth change the color of the past and control perceptions and acts in the present. It is not by accident, therefore, that the dominant images of popular history, the images of Minutemen, Pilgrims, Cowboys and Soldiers in Blue, are white images. But these images, which are the staples of mass media, are selections from a multicolored whole which included both Black and white actors. And to grasp the American experience in its fullness, we have to remember that Blacks were present and acting at almost every major event in American history. 

Lerone Bennett Jr., American (1928–2018)

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