Southern Cultures: Southern Waters Issue by Harry L. Watson Jocelyn Neal

Author:Harry L. Watson, Jocelyn Neal [Harry L. Watson, Jocelyn Neal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Theory & Criticism, History & Criticism, Reference, History, Americas, United States
ISBN: 9780807872505
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Georgia Speller, Boat on the River, House on the Hill (1987), tempera and pencil on wood, 18.25 × 30 inches. In this diptych, Georgia Speller shows two landscapes: “On the left is one of the big tourist riverboats and on the right is a gentrified house up on the hill. Those are like two components of white culture or gentrified civilization that she is excluded from … The water is where the riverboat goes. But, as her husband Henry Speller said to me once, the only time black folks are able to do something with the river is when they’re working on the levee loading and unloading things and even walking out into the water to put things on and off boats. It’s almost like a white swimming pool. They’re not allowed in it unless they’re working.” The same holds true for life in and around the big house on the hill.

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