Derrick R Spires
Biographic Data
| ID | 1022686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derrick R Spires |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derrick R |
| FAMILY NAME | Spires |
| SIGNATURE | SPIRES D R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dancing with History in the “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” Almost Unknown , and “Banshee”
Incorporating close readings and personal reflections of the author, this essay explores how William J. Wilson’s 1859 “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” Jonathan Michael Square’s 2025–26 Winterthur museum exhibition Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery, and Santigold and Kara Walker’s 2016 music video for the song “Banshee” collectively mobilize the sketch and silhouette traditions to theorize Black aesthetics, history, and futurity.…
New Citizenship Studies
Aliened Americans
This essay uses a brief attack from James McCune Smith on William Howard Day, editor of The Aliened American (1853–55), to recover, partially, The Aliened’s history and to meditate on questions of gender and pseudonymity in Black periodicals. The moment serves as an entrée into a larger printscape of aesthetic play and unwritten codes of social experiences that twenty-first-century readers might find reminiscent of modern social media
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Aliened Americans
This essay uses a brief attack from James McCune Smith on William Howard Day, editor of The Aliened American (1853–55), to recover, partially, The Aliened’s history and to meditate on questions of gender and pseudonymity in Black periodicals. The moment serves as an entrée into a larger printscape of aesthetic play and unwritten codes of social experiences that twenty-first-century readers might find reminiscent of modern social media
New Citizenship Studies
Dancing with History in the “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” Almost Unknown , and “Banshee”
Incorporating close readings and personal reflections of the author, this essay explores how William J. Wilson’s 1859 “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” Jonathan Michael Square’s 2025–26 Winterthur museum exhibition Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery, and Santigold and Kara Walker’s 2016 music video for the song “Banshee” collectively mobilize the sketch and silhouette traditions to theorize Black aesthetics, history, and futurity.…
History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work) · Digital Games and Media (1 work)