• Four modes of African-American artistry
    • Blues, jazz, rock and roll, and spirituals
    • Singing songs in these genres validated white people while hiding the true struggles of African-Americans; shows ingenuity
  • Language of quilts used in the Underground Railroad was not written down because having evidence of such things was punishable by death, was only taught through oral history
  • Quilts can act as portals through different migrations
    • First migration was Africans going to America as a part of the slave trade
    • Second migration was the Great Migration, Africans moving out of the South to different regions of the country in order to find work
    • Next migration, or portal, is to a world where African-Americans can live without racism and anti-black sentiment
      • Ties in with Afrofuturism and ideas of black people literally traveling to new worlds