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A site of struggle: American art against anti-Black violence

Abstract

Examines the vast array of art produced by African Americans in response to the continuing impact of anti-Black violence and how it is used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize those events.

Contents

Preface / Huey Copeland -- A site of struggle / Janet Dees -- Making racial violence visible / Leslie M. Harris -- Functional abstractions : sensorial afterlives of the Black body / Sampada Aranke -- Black redaction, Black evidence : another testimony of Black life / LaCharles Ward -- Pausing at the threshold / Courtney R. Baker.

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    • Evanston, Illinois: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
    • Princeton: In association with Princeton University Press, [2022]

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    • 0691209278
    • 9780691209272

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    Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January 26-July 10, 2022, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, August 13-November 6, 2022.

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