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"Koo, Koo, or Actor-Boy."


CREATOR: Isaac Mendez Belisario

DATE: 1837-1838

FORMAT: Print (Lithograph)

PUBLICATION: Adolphe Duperly: Kingston, Jamaica

CITATION:

"Koo, Koo, or Actor-Boy," Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in 

the Early African Diaspora. http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2309

SEE ALSO:

"West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child," Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:590

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Further Reading:

Bagneris M. L. & Brunias A. (2018). Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the art of Agostino Brunias. Manchester University Press.


Donnell A. (2022). Creolized sexualities : Undoing heteronormativity in the literary imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean. Rutgers University Press.
 

Fumagalli M. C. Ledent Bénédicte & Del Valle Alcalá Roberto. (2013). The cross-dressed Caribbean : Writing politics sexualities. University of Virginia Press. Retrieved February 22 2023 from http://site.ebrary.com/id/10840096.
 

Justice-Malloy R. & Mid-America Theatre Conference. (2007). Theatre history studies. 2007 volume 27. University of Alabama Press. Retrieved February 22 2023 from http://site.ebrary.com/id/10309048.

Okpewho I. Boyce Davies C. & Mazrui A. A. A. (2001). The African diaspora : African origins and New World identities (First paperback). Indiana University Press.

Land Acknowledgement

I would like to recognize the land upon which I live and work as the unceded territory of the Canarsie and Lekawe (Rockaway) People - the traditional owners of what was once part of Lenapehoking (now Southern Queens).   

In honor of the continued presence and stewardship of the Lenape in New York City, please join me in visiting and supporting The Lenape Center, linked here.

 

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