... to fight for recognition and cuits and nodes of domination over black women’s opportunity in the adult business, especially in the bodies and their labor. This metaphor exposes black United States, and having to defend her choice to women’s oft-ignored contributions to the economy, pursue sex work...

...Eddie Chambers Cherise Smith’s book Enacting Others brings together a disparate group of artists who “have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed.” Smith delivers a particularly engaging study because questions of identity...

... capitalism, and the forms of consciousness scores of those who look for love, sex, work, conver- that postmodern cultural conditions make available sation, and company across national and language for appropriation,” Sandoval goes on to stipulate borders and the fiber-optic cables of cyberspace. that her...

... to sex work or petty theft, and were subse• quently imprisoned under harsh conditions...

... resist unwanted readings of erotic pleasure in their works. Incorporating her analysis of these works into her conceptualization of images of black female nudity in art, the author proposes that a robust attention be given the visual image in the rising conversation on pleasure in African studies...

...: An Historical Romance Of A Civil War As It Occured Between The Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress And Her Heart suggests, slavery was a labor force meant to reproduce itself. If sex is theoretically defined as an economy whose poles are reproduction - read work or utility - on the one hand...

... both of these Her title essay accordingly veteran of the Culture Wars. sipy and malicious, historically tendencies were aspects of a applauds black artists that work Throughout the 90s, Fusco was minded and earnestly...

... one that perceives and accepts the dissolution of meaningful dif• gaze. The image of a life-sized black woman in the nude posed as ference. What the viewer sees is confident declaration. What the Muse invokes the viewer's cravings for sex and power, while the viewer sees...

.... The art world orthodoxy heavily crit- binds the race-ed or sexed subject to external forms of power.1 74 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art icized the work and the critical discourses it engaged (critical formal brilliance has yet to achieve its full maturation. race...

...• ered visual and discursive assaults Contemporary Art Center in works from the "Liberty Cincinnati, Ohio...

... that we encounter in the landscape. The works of seven contemporary South African artists are discussed in this context, including the photography of David Goldblatt, Guy Tillim, and Santu Mofokeng, video work and anamorphic drawings by William Kentridge, film by Berni Searle, painting by Vivienne...

... of the country, Hope II also include “Life Is Our Life’s Work,” a slogan for and about the past specifically. If you are an activist, per- a pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, and Dual Magic Probe, haps your protest is one against forgetting. which is an anal probe from the California Exotic Sex Com- pany...

... became the director of the Ecole de Beaux-arts in Casablanca, where he continues to work and live. Upon his return to Morocco from Prague in 1962, Belkahia...

.... But these young women have no This lifting of the barrier separating our supposed interest in being defined in relation to the oppo- lived experience and imagination forecloses a site sex. They have sex for work and pleasure — not strictly praxis-­oriented reading of his vision. His reproduction. The cyborg...

... industry, the enter- In another work painted at the same time, Intertext, tainment industry, and the sex trade. Campbell is ambiguous in situating the black female The inherent opportunism of exploitation within body in the past or in the present but clearly refer- encounters of difference...

... known for his provocative works, cinema. This does not mean, however, that he does Sanches Nka • 57 not consider the need to make films about Africa, The voice-­over accompanies the whole film, intro- or, more precisely, his...

... of identity in the context of Ghana in the twentieth century. By examining the ways that specific materials, icons, media, images, and objects interact and create a multiplicity of meaning and narratives within a body of work, I begin to uncover how these layers translate to and create discourse with my lived...

... theme in her work: interracial sex.10 figures on a dark background to express the action. Mulatto children were the outcome of sexual liai- This is at once an artful play with negative and posi- sons that were never acceptable in the antebellum tive space and a hint of invisibility for the racial...

... lationship with a white man. Hester reveals how brutal acts of racialized and sex - far as to say that Walker’s work even reflects some “Genius” Grant. In 2007 she was named among Time At the same time, many of Walker’s art images, ual violence against the black feminine body were...

... to one thing - sex. exceptionalism asking: "What, Americans commit atrocities? Our boys? Our g/r/s?"6 Double Negatives In a companion essay to Wallis's story for Time Separated by more than a year, the stories of Lynch magazine, an article titled "The Rules...