Meta Warrick Fuller's The Talking Skull
We Who Are Dark by Trent Tomengo
Episode notes
Professor Tomengo and Dr. Vaz discuss Meta Warrick Fuller's 1939 sculpture, The Talking Skull. They analyze its metaphoric potential and examine the significance of those metaphors for Black people then and now. The conversation also addresses the Administration of Theodore Rooselvelt, his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and his handling of the Brownsville Affair of 1906.
Keywords
History, Humanities, African, Black, Diaspora, we who are dark, Panafrican, fba, Latin, America, Black Art, African American history, African American Art