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Prayer before Muslim Day Parade, Madison Ave. Manhattan, NY, 1994. - photo © by Ed Grazda
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Prayer before Muslim Day Parade, Madison Ave. Manhattan, NY, 1994. - photo © by Ed Grazda
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"Muslim in New York" is the art world's latest response to Trump's travel ban.
By Priscilla Frank 02/15/2017
In the face of prejudice, New York’s museums are not remaining silent.
The Museum of the City of New York is the latest cultural institution using art to challenge President Trump’s travel ban ― which targets citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations ― with the photography exhibition “Muslim in New York.” The show communicates in no uncertain terms that Muslim life is an essential aspect of New York’s culture.
Featuring photographs dating from 1940 to present day, the show objects to the fallacious stereotyping of Muslims through the simple yet radical act of showing them as they really are. The artists depict immigrant and American-born Muslims from multiple racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Arabs, Turks, Afghans, African-Americans and Latinos, showing there is no single representation of Muslim life.
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Ed Grazda, Paktia, Afghanistan, 1983, gelatin silver print, image: 10 x 15 1⁄8 in. (25.4 x 38.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1984.95.2, © 1984, Ed Grazda
Earlier this year, Arizona’s historic Round Rock Trading Post burned to the ground. Starting in the 1880s, Round Rock had been part of a vast network of trading posts in an area of the American Southwest that would become known as the Four Corners. These were meeting places where Native Americans bartered with Anglo-Americans, offering wool, rugs, baskets, silver jewelry, and other hand-crafted items in exchange for coffee, cooking oil, flour, velveteen, and other goods they needed. Before its closure in 2014, and before the fire, Round Rock was one of the few remaining trading posts in the country. Every year, more trading posts close or are vandalized.
A Photographer Captures the Last Remaining Navajo Trading Posts