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Books by Fatima Mayfield
  | | Renée Stout Tales of the Conjure Woman by Renee Stout, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Mark Sloan, Fatima Mayfield, Ade Ofunniyin, Bernard L. Herman, Theodore Rosengarten, Leslie Umberger Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2015 by Halsey Institute Of Contemporary Art ISBN-13: 978-1-4675-8678-8, ISBN: 1-4675-8678-1 "Renee Stout's work explores the contours of the African American experience and the existence of an underground system of African-derived folk beliefs as transmitted from slavery to the present. This system, known variously as Hoodoo or conjuring, has its origins in herbal medicine, root work, and a belief in the spiritual attributes of plants and animals. For many years, the artist has used the alter ego Fatima Mayfield, a fictitious h ..." |