Sentences with phrase «rendering of black history»

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Moynihan was convinced that what he was witnessing was fundamentally a phenomenon of the black community, and so could be explained by the tragic history of African Americans, which rendered black families uniquely vulnerable to the kind of social and economic pressures many faced in poor urban environments.

And he rendered the invisible visible by showing readers that there were black and brown heroes in American history and also in everyday American life, helping readers of color to see themselves in stories while also helping white readers to reckon with some of the ways we benefit from, and often fail to recognize, deeply unjust power structures.

Images of anonymous African Americans rendered from vintage photographs form the basis of Whitfield Lovell's practice, a sustained exploration of the black experience through history and memory.

This week, we speak to Tiona McClodden (2016), a visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores gender, race, historical archives, and social change, driven by an interest in, she says, «contemporary renderings of the works of underrepresented figures in Black American history.»

Gallery walls are covered with his linear baroque flourishes, line drawings rendered in black rope and beads depicting the march of history as a fantastical Carnival procession with mythic gods, beasts and bizarre creatures brandishing assault rifles.