<I>Protest - America Series (Land Where My Father Died)</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1969
name: label: Created by
content: Barbara Jones-Hogu, American, 1938 - 2017
label: Subject of
content: AfriCOBRA, founded 1968
notes: label: Caption
content: Barbara Jones-Hogu was a founding member of the AfriCOBRA, an artist collective dedicated to producing culturally affirming and socially and politically engaged art.
label: Caption
content: Here, Jones-Hogu reimagines the American flag as a symbolic mosaic, replacing its white stars with abstracted figures of Klansmen. The prominently featured raised fists are a powerful emblem of unity and resistance within the Black Arts and Black Power movements of the late 1960s and 1970s. The subtitle, Land Where My Father Died, references the song “America (My Country ’Tis of Thee)” and alludes to the artist’s personal loss while also invoking a broader critique of oppression. As Jones-Hogu noted, her father lived in a nation where “he was not really free to do whatever we and he really wanted to do and could do due to racial oppression and suppression.”
label: Description
content: A color screenprint on colored paper by Barbara Jones-Hogu. Printed on a light tan paper, the top third of the print has a stars and stripes design in quilt-like blocks of red, white, and blue. The blue blocks feature a white five-pointed shape that resembles both stars and human figures. The bottom two thirds of the print features a crowd of Black people marching with their right fists raised. The people in the foreground are dressed in yellow, red, and blue shirts. Inscribed in graphite on the bottom of the painting is [Protest - America Series] at left, [Artist Proof] at center and the artist's signature Barbara J. Jones 1969] at right.
place: label: Place printed
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Resistance
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: America
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Exhibition
content: Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 052
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2024.111.3
objectType: label: Type
content: screen prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Barbara Jones-Hogu
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)