{"id":19430,"date":"2020-12-20T04:47:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19430"},"modified":"2020-12-19T00:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:46:37","slug":"aint-many-coloured-folks-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/aint-many-coloured-folks-here\/","title":{"rendered":"ain’t many coloured folks here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saturday night in a saloon, Craigville, Minn., September 1937 – Russell Lee<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In the 1970s, I enjoyed the local library’s coffee table sized books of famous photographs and American photographers. In these books, I learned of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) program from the 1930s\/40s and how it recorded the impact of the depression on American poor. Photographs were taken by people like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Russell Lee.<\/p>\n

To my innocent eyes, the very few American Blacks in the photos seemed natural. I never thought about why or how this came about even though people of colour in America exceeded the population of Canada and were disproportionally poor.<\/p>\n

Atlantic Monthly<\/a>, an excellent magazine, published in its December 2020 edition the article “Whitewashing the Great Depression<\/a>” by Sarah Boxer. The article discusses how the FSA intentionally encouraged photographs of mainly poor whites. Well worth a read.<\/p>\n

A big thank you to my friend and photographic historian, George Dunbar, for sharing this fid with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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