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Pellom McDaniels III, Ph.D. is the curator of African American collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. He is the author of The Hemp Breakers (2018) and The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy (2013), and editor of two recent volumes Porter, Steward, Citizen: An African Americans Memoir of World War I (2017) and Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch (2016). His current project, For Dignity and Honor: A Meditation on Photography, African American Masculinity, and World War I, examines the experiences of African American soldiers stationed in France during the war.
McDaniels has contributed essays to the International Review of African American Art and to anthologies such as Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sports Pioneers (2017), The Olympics and Philosophy (2012), and All Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film History (2010).
He has curated more than a dozen exhibitions related to the African American history and life. These include "On Fertile Ground: NBAF at 30" (2018), “A Question of Manhood: African Americans and World War I” (2017); “Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch (2016); “Othello: The Moor Speaks” (2016), “Pearl Cleage: A Time for Reflection (2015); and “What Must Be Remembered: An Exhibition Inspired by Natasha Trethewey’s Poem ‘Native Guard’” (2014). In 2016, he was commissioned as the lead scriptwriter for “Breaking Barriers: Sports for Change” exhibit for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. This year, he was commissioned by the National Black Arts Festival to curate the organizations 30th Anniversary exhibition.
McDaniels interest in art is not just academic. He is also an visual artist. His 2017 exhibition, Black: Towards an Afro-Cosmological Understanding, marked the debut of new works on paper after a ten-year hiatus. About the work, he writes: Black: Towards an Afro-Cosmological Understanding is an attempt to decouple blackness from whiteness while simultaneously creating empowering imagery associated with the African continent to render European and American ideas about race powerless.
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