There's Something in The Water

There's Something in The Water

This essay is a collage of images and writing from an ongoing project "Reading the River: Yemayá and Oshun." I am approaching it as is an experimental documentary that looks at the relationship between Blackness and the Mississippi River as a collision of ideas, cultural practices, politic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tia-Simone Gardner
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2019-04-01
Series:	Open Rivers
Subjects:	arts engagement environmental justice lower mississippi river peer review
Online Access:	https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/theres-something-in-the-water/

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