The Pecusas’ cornfield, Hopi Reservation, Arizona. Photograph by Andrew Lewis.
five farms: stories from american farm families
hopi reservation, arizona
photographs by andrew lewis
Lewis Cameron (l), President of IAM (International Association of Machinists) Local W 369, and worker at the Moncure plywood plant, and Melvin Monford, Business Agent for IAM-Wood division, speak at a public presentation at CDS on April 29, 2009. Photograph by Nick Pironio.
public presentation
April 29th, 6:30 p.m.
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Undergraduate students in the CDS class, “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South,” will present the story of the recent strike at the Moncure, North Carolina, plywood factory — as told by the workers themselves. Nearly 120 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local W369 were on strike 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from July 20, 2008, to March 31, 2009, for their what they saw as their basic human rights. New management demanded a 60-hour workweek, increased health insurance premiums, and the elimination of seniority, but a deeper look at the situation reveals that the strikers, most of whom were African Americans, were protesting racial injustice as well. Through the excerpts of Moncure Plywood workers’ personal histories and other research, the “Behind the Veil” class will illuminate the long history and stormy present of the ongoing struggle for racial and economic justice amongst African Americans in the South.
Photograph by Daniel Garcia
literacy through photography: an exhibit of pictures and writing
Through This Lens
303 E. Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC
On Display April 28–May 2, 2009
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an evening with alice gerrard
Event photographs from the April 16 concert and presentation
river of traps
Event photographs from the April 15 presentation and book-signing
A long-furred woolly mouse opossum (Micoureus paraguayanus) ambles down Noe de la Sancha’s arm. Photograph by Feini (Sylvia) Qu.
the atlantic forest: paraguay’s disappearing ecological treasure
photographs by feini (sylvia) qu
Reception: April 10, 5–7 p.m.
April 10–August 9, 2009
Porch and University Gallery
“Feini (Sylvia) Qu’s photographs from Paraguay are infused with her scholarship and engagement in zoology and habitat protection, and they reveal a complex layering of her interests in biodiversity, conservation, and documentary image making. . . .