I started the 2nd background painting.
. . . maybe something in the foreground, ehhh?
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
Here it is, keeping it simple. There are some small details, but they’re subtle and very quiet. Fin 91606
Here’s the base, keeping flat, muted colors.
Sometimes, white owners degraded African names and lent them pejorative meanings. For instance, the Hausa name Sambo, usually given to the second son of the tribe's family, was twisted in South Carolina to signify a lazy, stupid black male, a negative meaning that survives to this day. Quaco, the day name for men born on Wednesday, was derisively transliterated as Quack.
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Michael Eric Dyson: Is Bill Cosby Right? Or has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? (Basic Civitas Books, 2005) p.126
as cited in Peter Wood: Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York, Knopf, 1974)
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