Bridget R Cooks

Biographic Data

ID827780
NAMEBridget R Cooks
GIVEN NAMESBridget R
FAMILY NAMECooks
SIGNATURECOOKS B R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Reflections on My Nephew Emmett

    Bridget R CooksARTICLECritical Ethnic Studies2022

  • Yong Soon Min: Avm: After Venus (Mal)formation

    Bridget R CooksARTICLEAsian Diasporic Visual Cultures…2018

  • Sound of the Break: Jazz and the Failures of Emancipation

    Open AccessBridget R Cooks, Graham Eng-WilmotARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2016

    This article analyzes four musical works written for the commemorative centennial year of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1963: We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, featuring the vocalist Abbey Lincoln; Duke Ellington’s theatrical production My People; John Coltrane’s “Alabama”; and Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam.” This diverse set of songs expresses the contradiction of Black life and death in America during the modern civil rights moveme…

  • The Gee's Bend Effect

    Bridget R CooksARTICLETEXTILE2014

    In this article, Cooks examines quilts is echoed in the work of other contemporary artists. She analyzes how references to the how the aesthetic of Gee's Bend quilts lend Black credibility to the art that has the potential to critically comment on the history of race, poverty, and social injustice in America

  • Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery

    Bridget R Cooks, B R CookARTICLEJournal of American History2014

    Journal Article Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery Get access Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. xvi, 223 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1205–1206, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau045 Published: 01 March 2014

  • Pictures of Home

    Bridget R CooksARTICLEAfterimage2008

    In a photograph just larger than life size, a young woman twists toward the camera, looking over her shoulder into the lens. She stands upright in an endless and undefined white space. Framing her round, youthful face are long wispy bangs crossed over her forehead. Strands of straight hair and loose, black, corkscrew curls fall down her back. Her bright, open eyes stare directly at the viewer. Does she give a parting gaze, a final look before ent…

  • Fixing race: Visual representations of African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

    Bridget R CooksARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2007Cited by: 2

    Cooks examines the Johnson family cartoon series published in Harper's Weekly during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Her analysis addresses the series’ caricatures of African-American fairgoers in the context of the landmark exposition, a national celebration of America's cultural leadership and accomplishment since its ‘discovery’ by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Johnson family cartoons are remarkable because they are th…

  • Pan-African politics in African American visual art: Where have we been? Where are we going

    Bridget R CooksARTICLEInternational Journal of Media…2006

    From the nineteenth century sculptures of Edmonia Lewis to contemporary art installations by Pat Ward Williams, the history and aesthetics of African cultures have inspired art-making and political solidarity for artists of African descent in the United States. This article examines the ways in which African American artists have explored diverse aspects of African history and cultures in their artwork. Their desire to create a Pan-African commun…

  • African American art

    Open AccessRegenia Perry, Christina Knight et al.CHAPTER2003

  • The Black Female Body: A Photographic History

    Bridget R Cooks, Deborah Willis et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2003

  • See Me Now

    Bridget R CooksARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1995Cited by: 1

    Research Article| September 01 1995 See Me Now Bridget R. Cooks Bridget R. Cooks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 66–83. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-3_36-66 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bridget R. Cooks; See Me Now. Camera Obscura 1 September 1995; 12 (3 (36)): 66–83. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-3_36-66 Download citation f…