The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art

of Latinx, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native peoples and all the world’s degraded peoples, from the Roma and Jews of Europe to the aboriginals of Australia to the White people battered for their religion, class, gender, transgender identity, ethnicity, sexuality, body size, age, and disability. The gift of seeing myself as Black instead of bei

one that we do well to see, while never forgetting it is a mirage, never forgetting that it’s the powerful light of…

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When making art, we create a mirror in which someone may see their own hidden reflection.

In the developing American empire, the relationship between visuality, racialization, and domination is most arguably realized with American Indian subjects.