If They Come for Me
in the Morning:
Town Hall Forums
on the Legacy of
State-Sponsored Xenophobia
If They Come for Me in the Morning examined the generational impact of state violence through five weeks of performances and conversations with Native American artists and activists, African American historians, Japanese American incarceration camp survivors, Holocaust survivors, and people who are today threatened with deportation.
2018 October The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY
Curator and Executive Producer Brian Tate
Project Coordinator Jenny Tibbels
Production Support Trevor Exter
Audio Recording Adrian Taverner
Social Media Holly Ajala
Photography Ed Marshall & Shyanne Yellowbird
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
The recent U.S. policy of separating and jailing immigrant families strikes at America’s image as a champion of diversity, democracy, and human rights. But the practice is not new, and it evokes historic episodes of state-sponsored xenophobia and bigotry. Today, as the deportations continue and the fates of scores of immigrant children remains unknown - and as America braces for a White Nationalist rally to be held across the street from The White House - it is worth asking: What can we learn from past traumas when political leaders used corrosive remarks and the power of government to define entire populations of people as security threats, noncitizens, or less than human?
About the Art
Photos by Ed Marshall
