Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson Louise Jefferson represents the intersection of two neglected cartographic cultures, women and African Americans, in the mid-twentieth century. Louise Jefferson’s journey through sexism and racism to become a leading member of the artistic and publishing scene gives visibility to the disadvantaged communities from which they emerged and maps this conversion. Their work as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and cartographer demonstrates that maps are more than the objects or things we have conventionally defined them to be. Rather, they are practices and representational images as well as systems of ordering social and spatial identity that connect and empower a people through time and space, and allow African American women to “talk back” against their oppression” From: Yessler, R., & Alderman, D. H. (2021). Art as “talking back”: Louise Jefferson’s life and legacy of counter-mapping. Cartographica, 56(2), 137-150–150.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson A collection of maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection https://tinyurl.com/yeywn6sc Includes: (1945). Africa. (1945). Arica. A Friendship Map. (1946). Americans of negro lineage. (1943) Makers Of The U.S.A. (1948) China : a friendship map. (1944) Indians of the U.S.A. (1944) Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson Illustrations by Louise E. Jefferson. In: Jefferson, Louise. E. (1974). The decorative arts of Africa. Collins. Illustrations (b/w) show Africa's Topography, sketch of an individual hands raised standing atop Africa, a globe view with Africa shaded, and Chapter 5 titled Europe Discovers Africa: The colonial conquest with an illustration of the pyramids.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson [portion] of a map showing the lower left edge and includes the title and a cartouche that includes plants, an elephant and a zebra. From: Jefferson, Louise E. (1945). Arica. A Friendship Map. Friendship Press, Inc. [David Rumsey Map Collection]. This is a pictorial map promoting peaceful relations with Africa and advocating for African self-determination, independence, and self-rule as the era of colonization approached its conclusion.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
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