The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art

use it as a term for the denotative and connotative blackness that African peoples have come to signify,

a movie like Do The Right Thing, by Spike Lee, that tackles America’s racial tensions, these productions offer a perspective on the world that is informed by the way a community sees the world. The creations of producers, like Glover and Lee, act as a vessel of cultural information that is discussed and negotiated by the community to decide whether

Certain images underscore an unbridgeable gap and a never-to-be-toppled hierarchy. When a group of people is judged to be “foreign,” it becomes far more likely that news organizations will run, for the consumption of their audiences, explicit, disturbing photographs of members of that group: starving children or bullet-riddled bodies. Meanwhile, th

I’ve been trying to articulate a method of encountering a past that is not past. A method along the lines of a sitting with, a gathering, and a tracking of phenomena that disproportionately and devastatingly affect Black peoples any and everywhere we are.