Race and Visual Representation
Race and Visual Representation
Investigates the role of visual representation in the establishment of real and fictional black identity, focusing on how African-American artists have responded to or used stereotypical images and how these responses may have impacted white identity and social power
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Traces black artists' responses to racist imagery across two centuries, from early works by Henry O Tanner and Archibald J Motley Jr, in which African Americans are depicted with dignity, to contemporary works by Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles, in which derogatory images are recycled to controversial effect.
