The window is a symbol of the middle passage, the route through which millions of Africans traveled, many of them dying, on their way to slavery in America.
The performance artist interacting with gender sculptures and the environment through the third medium of film staked an unmarked middle passage of seeking gender equality through the unexpected humor, sourced in a pleasurably proactive act defining the neo-modern woman.
Around August 20th, Hopkins set his course through the middle passage with a hundred and sixty-seven slaves aboard.
As New Yorkers stumble, marionettelike, through the middle passage of life, many keep a lookout for indications of their own increasing crankiness.
In The Middle Passage (1962), his first journey through the Caribbean, he dismissed attempts by Afro-Caribbeans to understand their African antecedents as the 'sentimental camaraderie of skin'.
Don't ask them to be a go-between or to report back on your partner. 1 Understand Everybody has to journey through the middle passage to become a full adult.
Despite a history of heart trouble, Middle Passage had marched nine hundred and twenty miles, through parts of the country where the heat index reached a hundred and fourteen degrees and where, for the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, black people were prevented from voting.
Cooper discusses the impact of the slave trade on mortality rates of the enslaved (e.g. through the middle passage) along with the ways in which slavery and colonialism underdeveloped the continent of Africa while enriching the Spanish, Portuguese, Iberian peoples, the United States, England and France among others.
I'd like to get there sooner, rather than linger in a world where factory workers in places like Vietnam have to pass through a long Middle Passage of dangerous, poorly compensated work, while employees in richer countries struggle with insecurity and downward pressure on their wages.
Drawings by Tom Feelings Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn Through Feb. 4 The Middle Passage is the name given to the dangerous sea leg of the slave trade, across the Atlantic Ocean from the west coast of Africa to North and South America and the Caribbean.
