The incident has launched a productive dialogue around the stakes of representation and the persistence of «afropessimism» in art and the media, whereby mainstream
narratives about blackness continue to focus on, and even fetishise, violence and disenfranchisement, to the exclusion of other themes.
Beyond the socio - economic benefits, Black teachers held the promise of political power, and they would partner with clergymen, businessmen and parents in the community to raise up a generation of African - American youth who knew their history and affirmed a collective
narrative about our Blackness: We are intellectual.
Not exact matches
Walking through the exhibit, anyone who has heard
about the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's portrait of Emmett Till in the 2017 Whitney Biennial should be keenly aware of the significance of a show where the
narrative of
blackness is articulated by black artists.
Thomas says, «The exhibition starts the conversation»
about how
blackness is comprised of many identities and simply offers, as Essers points out, a «rewriting of some of the
narratives from an African perspective.»