Welcome to Cultural Crossings: A Gender Imagebase, a joint project of colleagues in gender and development/women studies at Emory University and the University of the West Indies. Access to the Imagebase is limited to faculty, staff and students on the constituent campuses of Emory and of the University of the West Indies. The database you are about to access includes more than 1000 images of Africa and the Caribbean drawn from published sources, from web sites, and from the personal photo collections of scholars and students. Along with each image are descriptions of what is pictured and comments on its meaning. Each record also includes information on the source of the image and recommendations for further reading about it.
The Imagebase is searchable by keyword, country, region, ethnic group, date, name of artist/photographer, and medium and by combinations of all of these. It is intended as a resource for students and faculty to research phenomena associated with gender, to compare cultural practices across countries and regions, and to prepare presentations and research papers on gender. The images can be cut and pasted into programs such as Microsoft Powerpoint or Word for further study.
Students and faculty for Emory can also build and save a slide show using these pages. Because of space restriction, each user may save up to 30 slides in their collection.
Our original concept was to include images of the Caribbean and of the areas of Africa from which Afro-Caribbean peoples came. In the long run, we hope to expand the Imagebase’s scope to include images from other areas of the world that were involved in the peopling of the Caribbean. However, as you work with the Imagebase, you will discover that in fact it has multiple uses that go far beyond consideration only of gender questions in these two world regions. For example, you can use it to study the history of photography or representation in either region, you can develop insights into the European, Caribbean or African “eye“ at various points in the history of these regions, or you can look at architecture and material culture as phenomena apart from gender.
Students and faculty from both Emory University and the University of West Indies (from the UWI on-campus network only) may access the Imagebase project database using the linked (below) portals. The Cultural Crossings is a constantly growing database of images and visual both from Africa and the Caribbean to serve as resource for teaching and for research. It has been funded by a grant from the Fulbright as well as by financial an logistical support from Emory University.
Access to these portal is restricted to the University community of Emory and UWI:
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