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... the Dutch blackface tradition Zwarte Piet, race, racism, and black identity in the Netherlands. Notes 1 I would be remiss not to mention the following people for their belief in the project prior to its growing popularity: Hanif Abdur Rahim, Elen K. Awalom, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Russell...

... the legacy of racism in small and big ways in South Africa. He was at the center of critical debates about race and representation. While there are all kinds of practical guidelines for how to talk about racism within the larger culture, we still do not have one for talking about racial inequality and racism...

... as an artist took shape in Cape Town in the 1960s, when every aspect of his life was dominated by the racism of the apartheid state, he has questioned both the incongruities of his life and what his role as an artist has meant, establishing himself as an outspoken and imaginative critic of institutionalized...

...Nana Adusei-Poku The article “Post-Post-Black?” unfolds two aspects with which contemporary black artists and academics are confronted: the prevailing racism and stereotypes about the work by black artists and scholars, and the advanced scholarship and artistic practices that try to dispose...

... in a symbolic act of repair toward the development of an African American selfhood uniquely capable of imagining a future beyond longstanding regimes of systemic racism. Foreshadowing by several decades the full flourishing of pan-Africanism, Ethiopia takes up the nascent Harlem Renaissance quest for a “New...

...Peter Erickson William Kentridge’s 9 Drawings for Projection present white characters in the context of apartheid caught between guilt and redemption, with special attention to the intermediate terrain. Felix in Exile , the fifth film, suggests that the dismantling of the structures of white racism...

... of Hayden’s African dancers should be understood as a cheeky critique of the staged performance of Africanness Hayden witnessed at the colonial fair rather than an uncomplicated expression of internalized racism. In portraying the dancers with the mask of blackface minstrelsy, Hayden sought to unmask the epic...

... Mwangi’s earlier solo work, which often explicitly addressed topics of entrenched racism and the lingering legacy of colonialist discourses in Germany and modern Europe. The earlier work, now labeled as Mwangi Hutter, is redefined and provides a multidimensional social platform from which to investigate...

... and welcome, but feel compelled to go to and engage with them? Can museums transcend past racism in their collecting and exhibiting practices to create non-racialized spaces for dialogue and encounter? How can public programming and new technologies and spaces (mobile, space) serve to create ways for all...

.... French hip-hop is the second-largest-selling in its genre in the world, and it is not surprising that it has resonated with young immigrant populations. There is a vital jazz scene in France but also a growing specter of racism. I am interested in recording the ways in which black bodies exist...

... to reveal the ways in which racism, the history of slavery, and the legacy of the British Empire are embedded in such practices. For over twenty years, Evans has been exploring recurring motifs that resonate not only with her personal biography as a Lagos-born, London-based artist, but also...

... have avoided the nexus of erotic pleasure and the visual because of their historical association with nineteenth-century scientific racism. The author argues Bopape’s and Searle’s images exceed a single and stable interpretation. By inserting their (semi-)naked bodies as central images, they invite yet...

... notion of race-blindness in France, past and present. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 antiblackness “Au Nègre Joyeux” everyday racism race race-blindness AU NÈGRE JOYEUX EVERYDAY ANTIBLACKNESS GUISED AS PUBLIC ART Trica Keaton...

... there are venues in the North. Joel Kovel, in White Racism: A women in the crowd, as these lynchings took place? Psychohistory, talks about the difference between the It seems to me that the gaze is primarily on the lynch North and the South.1 There is adversive racism in victim...

... in public expression of their collective moral outrage at not just the incessant violation of black lives by the police, but also the systemic racism that funds black oppression. Politicians, religious leaders, small and multinational corpora- tions, cultural and educational institutions came out...

... solid proof aged inner-city whites. But where the vestiges of of an irreversible commitment to taking racism Powell's construction persist, contact with out of our civic culture...

... it was racism and sexism in South Africa created a cultural context 56 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art Billboard from Returning the Gaze, the Capetown One City Festival, 21-25 September 2000. wherein the white (male) artist...

...• controversial installations composed cally rich, though disturbing explo• of black-and-white cut-out silhouettes ration of the psychology of racism, that depict highly charged...

...- rests firmlyonthe dark penciled ground sexuality, racism, capital, and class exist between women, ashistories of friendship, and love. Power relations intellectual and emotional connection, position and disagreement aswell rather, one thatisactivatedby op...

... intentionally uses over- There are millions upon millions of dollars due statement to signify about black complicity in racial from the Southerners to the merchants and mechan- discourse. ics of this city alone, the payment of which would In short, race (and racism) functioned effectively...