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An introduction to the types of African American art and representation, from the height of the British colonial period through to the current moment, that are explored in the subsequent chapters. The methodologies used by the author to engage and create African American art histories, both object-based and biographical, are discussed, as well as changes in the field that the author has experienced in the last thirty years.

theory, methodology, biography, analysis

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