... Wilde Yinka Shonibare BLACK QUEER DANDY THE BEAUTY WITHOUT WHOM WE CANNOT LIVE Monica L. Miller f blackness itself is a “sexual crime,” if “the col- ored is thought to be more prone to sexual per...

.... Based on my previous research on black women and the politics of beauty culture in the twentieth century, I examine the ways that online natural-hair communities provide a rich archive for those who wish to take seriously the concerns of black women. Specifically, this essay discusses the ways in which...

... vociferously against nationalism in politics and art, both locally and regionally. In doing so, they shifted the audience of modern Egyptian art and created a new, transnational public. For these reasons, the author calls this movement the “Beautiful Black Cloud” of modern Egyptian Art. It was violent, stormy...

... works on the racial implications of beauty, fashion, and adornment; racial inequality in education; race, migration, and urbanization; and black women’s studies. Notes Nka...

.... Through the Ebony Fashion Fair, Johnson Publishing Company brought exclusive design into very public spaces and featured it on black bodies. The traveling show reiterated the publishing company’s project of featuring the best in black life, and it used fashion, beauty, and glamour to accomplish that end...

..., Ramouna Saunders, Jennifer Brice, Barbara Jackson, and China Machado. The rest is well-heeled history. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Versailles runway models fashion show black beauty American designers haute couture VERSAILLES ’73 AMERICAN RUNWAY...

... of cosmopolitan societies and selves; and the changing representation of blackness, desire, and beauty across time and space. His archive thus not only constitutes a rare document of the black experience in postwar Britain during the Swinging Sixties, but also provides an important frame of reference, overlapping...

... sparked in the 1970s by the Black and Latinx Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) communities in New York. The muses are disenfranchised African American trans women who have faced a long-standing subjugation anchored in America’s history of racial slavery and classed transphobic...

..., these audience mem- bers may relive the upsetting effects of the repeated epistemic violation of images of (semi-) naked black bodies. The title of the piece, Silent Performance, and that of the exhibition Beauty and Pleasure, trouble stereotypical readings of black nakedness as exclu- sive sites of injury...

..., the portrait’s audience—finds herself in the unique, deferential position of being in the sitter’s own metaphorical, critical purview. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 black beauty Donyale Luna fashion models photography subject agency WHO’S ZOOMIN’ WHO...

... with its obsessive decoration and its focus on black figuration. It won awards and the admiration of institutions and collectors. The new work employs a reduced palette, eschews glitter, and rewards the extended gaze in a way that his previous excess could not. This recent work also allows the viewer...

... by the beast with a beautiful Black woman’s face. This article argues, instead, that the woman represents violated and polluted Earth, a victim of carnivorous birds, who, in turn, represent the devastating agents of industrial pollution and rampant consumption. This work testifies to the artist’s interest...

...Gen Doy Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 shism and Black Beauties." Since Black Visual Culture...

... and newspapers. She established her identity esis of the so-called pure, chaste, and beautiful as a fashion trendsetter, known in Johannesburg Caucasian woman. Black women’s bodies, adorned for her “excellent taste in clothes.”16 Seemingly in Afro wear, became the surfaces upon which the overnight Kente...

... own name with that of W.E.B. DuBois and Madame C miserly minister of finance who apparently practiced the art. The Walker, an early entrepreneur in the black beauty industry and inven• word was brought to England and popularized by the most famous tor of the hot comb. Maybe...

... it meant - what it means - to be black, beautiful and homosexual in America. Most previous portraits of Hughes had tiptoed around the ques...

... are in a post-Black is beautiful discursive space 33 (1998): 38. where “post” points to the waning of old paradigms 12 Daniel Miller, “Fashion and Ontology in Trinidad,” in Design and Aesthetics: A Reader, ed. Jerry Palmer and Mo Dodson...

.... that this is obviously not a black beauty European collectors are influential As in Trinidad, living and working with a wicker basket on her head or a within the Trinidad art scene, often in Kingston, Jamaica as a contempo- Rkjhfc Christopher Cozier, Pott...

... of shared black cultural experi- rampant and unfetishized black beauty.”15 ence, but they do speak to the nightmarish racial Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. argues that “cultural forms experiences that many African Americans have such as tales, stories, and music (especially the per- known in America...

... to be anything but desirable or in his speech “Pictures and Progress” could be said beautiful, have been too great to bear? to have spawned the burden of so-called positive In the marketplaces of female beauty, the texture representation—both in visual culture and in every- of black hair has commonly been...