The exhibition was curated by Ellen Avril, chief curator and the Judith H. Special thanks go to Brett de Bary, professor emerita in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell, and Rebecca Jennison, professor emerita at Kyoto Seika University, for their efforts to bring this project to Cornell. This exhibition is a collaborative effort of artists Soni Kum, Hiroki Yamamoto and Kazuya Takagawa, and Nobuaki Takekawa with curator Yumiko Okada, based on personal encounters with sixteen former “returnees” or their descendants. It highlights the rich resources related to textiles at Cornell and broadens our understanding of the historical and current impact of textiles and clothing on the US and global economies and social and environmental sustainability.įrom 1959 to 1984, more than ninety thousand Zainichi Koreans (ethnic Koreans resident in Japan) were repatriated by the Japanese and North Korean government to North Korea, a program of deportation that was couched as a humanitarian effort but was driven by Cold War politics. Social Fabric connects existing material from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives to selections from the newly acquired library and archives of the former American Textile History Museum. Spanning nearly 400 years, it includes: indigenous communities that lived along the river valleys in New England where those industries first arose enslaved people and sharecroppers in the South who grew the cotton that fed the mills women and immigrants who worked in the mills and factories who fought for worker’s rights through unions incarcerated people who make clothing and textiles in American prisons and the workers in the Global South who make much of what we use and wear today.
Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and World the Textile Industry Created tells the story of the communities affected by the textile and garment industries in the United States and around the world.
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