... Symbionese Liberation Army are most often remembered through their spectacular representation in visual media culture rather than through their political actions or agendas. Video and film projects such as Raymond Pettibon and David Markey’s Citizen Tania (1989), Isaac Julien’s Baltimore (2003), Sharon...

... also the potential to quicken the process by which the repressed underground images of popular culture are restored to the present and disturb the peace and decompose [the] politics of con- formism and redemption which aestheticizes difference and neutralizes memory. It opens up the...

... Texas at Austin. His book, of the artists it represents. In 1994 she curated (and Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent provided the catalogue entries for) Home and Away: Black Artists in Britain, appeared in 2012...

... Journal of Contemporary African Art • 32 • Spring 2013 just been republished, and a splendid biography required the mobilization of every source of life. It also marks this important intellectual and political engaged the human subject and all human peoples moment. For close to half a century, this...

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... devastated Detroit and Newark, NJ, she painted Die expressly for the show. The wall-size canvas depicts an interracial cast of clean-cut antagonists trying to kill one another. Although the painting represented the kind of large-scale, politically motivated figuration that had been out of favor since the...

... politics were particularly important as black South Africans fought for basic human rights. Drum magazine—South Africa’s leading fashion black lifestyle magazine—chronicled the burgeoning Black Consciousness movement along side its coverage of black fashion models and fashion designers. Fashion was...

.... 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...

... in these two pieces acid. Decisions made by the authorities in bore a direct relationship to escalating economic response to families' demands for the repatriation and political violence in the city: they may have of bodies made the atmosphere more charged still. been...

... French presence lasted for 373 years also worthwhile to situate Cesaire's life in a (1635-2008), a very long time. This longevity was broader global context of critical transitions. He not only structured by French political and eco• was born in 1913, one year before the...

... AT UCLA V V takes the politics of identity and jus - the work—which, bearing in mind its ity of suffering that continues to un - ical borders and evoking the history of to engage, accentuate, and juxtapose tice—or the lack...

... , meaning both “frame” and “political party operative,” and in his refusal to offer critique through his work, embracing instead an existential diaspora of contradiction. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010 Meschac Gaba’s Two for the Price of One...

... obligation—­to bear witness to the intention under- powers of looking. lying all language. Such a call provokes a politics of In the closing shot of this video, one of the men visual culture that attends to the disjunction at the turns away from the woman and faces the cam- bottom of language...

.... So it’s not the same thing, but you seen a covered boat. They didn’t understand this boat that think about it just the same. It seems to me that it’s another wasn’t open. Their politics was a politics of the open boat, way of meditating on what’s happened in the world. Just not the closed one...

... political issues on content matters, antithetical to the formal con- cerns of aesthetics.”16 The seemingly universal appeal to goodness...

.... PLEASURE. POLITICS. article of clothing and a menacing, violent, urban, male identity, became justification for his murder at the hands of George Zimmerman. For these rea...

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...• er, is the discussion about censor• As a political scientist, Tracy Snipe is ship, artistic freedom, and notions of most concerned with utilizing...