Black History Month!
2016 edit: a lot of teachers and librarians asked if there was a poster for this that they could buy. Nope! This post was made as an educational aid and teachers oughtn’t have to pay anything to get it in their classroom. So here’s a link to download the poster’s print file to print it yourself:
https://gumroad.com/l/Exvau
I did include the series in my recent art book 555 Character Drawings, so if you want it in a book with a lot of other stuff, that’s available, too.
http://crogan.bigcartel.com/product/555-character-drawings-preorders
My favorite parts of history (as might be obvious from my choice of subject matter when making books) are the ones that fall into easily-categorized genres, genres with associated visual iconographies. This is the sort of stuff I loved as a kid: pirates, knights, cowboys, explorers, romans and Egyptians and flying aces. Stuff you could find featured in a bag of toys or a generic costume.
For Black History Month, I thought I might visit some of these adventure-leaning periods and pick a few historic black people from those eras to draw, just for fun. If you’re doing a project or report in school this month, you could do worse than to tackle one of these toughies. Feel free to share some of these with youngsters that you know. And call them youngsters, they LOVE that.
(longer write-ups under the break)
Black History Month is just around the corner, so I wanted to reblog this in case any teachers want to have it on hand at February’s start. Poster print files are up on gumroad, which should be easier than how I had ‘em for download last time.
Las soldaderas eran de raza negra?? other than that this is really cool
I was skeptical about some of this, but… holy shit, it’s all accurate.
We had an abundance of natives that the Spaniards didn’t thoroughly kill, so by the time they had control of the land they didn’t need to call for extra human resources as much as the northern fellas.
Still, there were some cases of slavery that brought forth a black demography in coastal zones, of which Oaxaca and Guerrero are two; and that’s where Zapata had his army which included black women yes. Also black men, but soldaderas are more important because of course they are.