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The Culture of Resistance: African American Art Quilts and Self-Defining

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From Uncoverings 2001, Volume 22 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

2001

By: Hood, Yolanda

Yolanda Hood has a Ph.D. in literature, with an emphasis in folklore. She is an assistant professor in the Literature and Languages Depart­ment at the University of North Carolina-Asheville where she teaches African/ African American/ Caribbean literature and folklore classes. Yolanda also curates quilt exhibits and is currently working on an ex­hibition, Parallel Threads, for the Vermont Quilt Festival and the New England Quilt Museum.