Chasing the Diamond: The Black Pacific, Ocean Memory & Slave Trade Routes to the Americas
A virtual panel with Alex Borucki, Ph.D., Professor of History, UC Irvine - Caroline Collins, MEA, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, UC San Diego - Kevin Dawson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, UC Merced - Brisa Marie Smith Flores, Ph.D., Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, African American Studies and Art History, UC Irvine - Spencer Gomez, Ph.D. Candidate, History, UC Irvine - Ayasha Guerin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA - Jamal J. Hill, Olympic Athlete and Founder of Swim Uphill Foundation - Anthony R. Jerry, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Black Studies, UC Riverside.
In 1759 the Diamond, a sloop that would trade ownership between the French and the British over the course of its life, sailed to unspecified ports in the Americas, Jamaica, Panama, Colombia and more unspecified destinations in what was then known as the Spanish Caribbean and embarked and disembarked human cargo as part of the slave trade. During this voyage, one member of its human cargo was lost and remains in a residence time presence in an unknown location. The Diamond serves as an entry point into a discussion of the movement of Africans and African-descended captives to the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea-bordered regions, the ocean memory of those human cargo lost to the voyages through the Americas and how that loss reverberates into the present.
This panel is associated with the art exhibition Descent & Transformation, Vol. I: Voyages to the Americas, curated by mixed media artist Kathie Foley-Meyer, Ph.D.
November 9 - December 21, 2024, Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood, California
Opening Reception, Nov. 9, 1pm-5pm, Residency Art Gallery, 1245 District Drive, Suite 945, Inglewood, CA 90303
ARTISTS: Mia Arvizu - Chelle Barbour - Lyndon Barrois Sr. - Mustafa Ali Clayton - June Edmonds - George Evans - April M. Frazier - Mark Steven Greenfield - Ayasha Guerin - Noah Humes - Michael Massenburg - Ella Maria Ray - Diana Sinclair - Toni Scott - J Michael Walker - Nicole Maileen Woo
With the support of the MRPI Project Routes of Enslavement in the Americas, the UCI Humanities Center, History, Art History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, African American Studies, and Illuminations.
Banner Image: Kathie L. Foley-Meyer, PhD, UCI Visual Studies, https://kf-m.com/
