Goodman’s graduate work for Warren Wilson College's Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies program focused on the lives and experiences of enslaved Black craftswomen in the upper South, including the Southern Appalachian Mountains, between 1850 and 1910. She researched the change from craftswomen being enslaved to craftswomen being free women entering into institutionalized education.
Within her work, the relation between identity and material and the transfer of knowledge are contextualized as fundamental components to understanding the history of Black craftswomen and Black history. Additionally, examining the labor of enslaved Black women as an apparatus of craftwork illuminated that these women were textile practitioners producing apparel and goods like mattresses, brooms, spun thread, woven cloth, and knitted and sewn garments created for their enslavers but also for their families, and themselves. Access “In the Fray: In the Fray: Black Women and Craft, 1850 - 1910.”
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Camp, Stephanie. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Cross, P.J., “Aunt Betty Cofer” in Federal Writers; Project: Slave Narrative Project: Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1. Washington, 1936, 169, https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn111/.
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Du Bois, W. E. B. The Negro artisan: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University; together with the proceedings of the seventh Conference for the study of the Negro problems, held at Atlanta University on May 27th, 1902. Georgia: Atlanta University Press, 1902.
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Naji, Myreim, “Creativity Tradition in Keeping Craft Alive among Moroccan Carpet Weavers and French Organic Farmers; in Critical Craft Technology Global and Capitalism, edited by Clare Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola, 153-167. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
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Resource list
The interviews conducted during the late 1930s by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) found in the Library of Congress's digital collections are a primary resource. These interviews are instrumental because the information shared by those who were formerly enslaved people during the interview reveals pivotal information regarding their identity and how it is intrinsically connected to their material and craft practices during the enslavement (in some cases after emancipation). These interviews by the WPA came with a plethora of problems in that Black people were still subject to extreme racism, and the interviewer placed negative assumptions about the interviewee.
Below are select articles, publications, and books that I used and continue to use in my work. This includes archival documents such as runaway slave advertisements, newspaper clippings, narratives from former slaves, records from Black industrial schools and colleges, and Black feminist theory.
Reference (focus)
“The capacity of craft to link a variety of argumentative and theoretical domains together is a reflection of its contemporary power.”
“Introduction: Taking Stock of Craft in Anthropology” in Critical Craft Technology Global and Capitalism, edited by Clare Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola, (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016), 16.