Kara Walker: Process and Inspiration
Kara shared several of the drawings she created while planning her installation at Domino, as well as pages full of notes and sketches.
Slideshow
Kara created this slideshow as well, which outlines the many ideas relating to the history of sugar that she explored in the early stages of developing this project.
Select Bibliography
Books and Articles
Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz
City of Women by Ruth Landes
Some Notes on Sugar and Molasses – Being the Story of an American Industry by Sidney W. Mintz
“Domino Sugar strike in Brooklyn ends in defeat” by Alan Whyte
“At Sugar Refinery, A Melting-Pot Strike; Workers of Many Nations Besiege Brooklyn Relic of Industrial Age” by Steven Greenhouse
“English Subtlety Paper with Pictures” on Roxalana’s Redactions blog
Sweets: A History of Candy by Tim Richardson
Sugar and the Visual Imagination in the Atlantic World, circa 1600–1860 from The John Carter Library
Sugar Please by Graham Chandler and George Azar
Films
“Big Sugar” Sweet, White & Deadly by Brian McKenna
Addicted to Pleasure: Sugar BBC Documentary
The Price of Sugar by Bill Haney
The Can of Molasses Skit with Buster Keaton
I Walked with a Zombie by Jacques Tourneur
Wide Sargasso Sea by John Duigan
