It's a little lost to history these days, but "Rum and Coca Cola" was an enormous hit for the Andrew Sisters in 1945. Their version offered to postwar Americans a singable, dance-able appropriation of Trinidadian calypso--just as Caribbean travel …
Deanne Achong
Deanne Achong
Workin’ for the Yankee Dollar
Workin' For the Yankee Dollar was created by Deanne Achong in Vancouver, Canada but concerns the cultural and military invasion of Trinidad by the US in the 1940's. The book illustrates and annotates the appropriation of Lord Invader's (Rupert …
RML’s Mail Art Action
If you would like an artist book from the RML collection, you can receive it by exchange, including through Mail Art exchanges. Here's how it works: Send one or two original artist books, chapbooks, 'zines (or the like) about migration to: Reading …
Reading the Migration Library in 2020
La pandemia, along with its restrictions, uncertainties, horrors and anxieties, is as good a time as any to write and make art about human migration. Its arrival in March coincided with a funding award for Reading the Migration Library from the BC …