...) both draws on and critiques conventions of documentary photography. Containing appropriated archival photographs, her works are often interpreted as the artist subverting visual stereotypes of black people in order to commemorate their lives and experiences. The author explores the formal strategies...

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... in a contemporary era: “Two visual and textual resistances to the intersecting decades later, the intrusive and corrosive effects of relationships between black masculinity and stop and search are still being felt, in Birmingham white mainstream stereotyping, criminalization, and elsewhere in the country...

...Monique Kerman Artist Mary Evans has been working in cut paper since the mid-1990s. In her chosen medium, Evans investigates signs and signifiers of the way humans tend to classify certain races and nationalities, particularly in visual terms. Over the course of her career, her work has evolved...

...• sions related to globalization, identity issues, power relations, and the politics of representation. The "visualized" racial stereotype—-as cultural...

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

... in which all black men are essentialized as Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 201978 Nka homogenous threat. As Homi Bhabha argued, the only way of displacing the stereotyped image is by engaging with its effectivity. 17 Thus, in the project of decolonizing the visual representations...

... to the installation of the Rotunda. While the visual references of the Rotunda refer to historical Venice, parts of the installation look at the 20th century and at contemporary stereotypes of the "Moor" and the African body. For Wilson, black glass drops, or "tears," evoke images of pre-World War II...

... work is not rooted in insecurity and Mammy Two Shoes to make provocative visual identity; rather, his foundation is a confident sense statements about contemporary visual culture and of self and the complications of being black in the the presence of myths, fantasies, and stereotypes...

... characters of different racial back• nects modern art practice, especially surrealist grounds that collide in one incident. The different photography in Paris, in the early decades of the stereotypes society has created for those back• twentieth century to the even more contemporary grounds affect...

...Derek Conrad Murray Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 "Black Belt" on many levels celebrates the very stereotypes...

... of Africa which defies any stereotypical notions of its arts and challenges all essentialized reading of its contemporary visual cultures. ConsistentWwith this vision, Nka's circle of exchange and collaboration with similar contemporary art forums and journals has widened. As this issue attests...

... that, for this paraphernalia and obvious visual strategies of the right-wing groups group especially, news photographs have served the purpose of sim• themselves. Military formations are ordered and geometric: photog• ply confirming a pre-existing image rather than the usual function of raphers will find...

...• to the Afro hairstyle and to media and ous that the definition of identity, within marketed black stereotypes, Boyce pro• the locality of an antagonistic majority...

...Mireille Miller-Young This essay explores how black feminists working in the area of sexuality and visual culture necessarily face serious questions about what it means to present images of black women’s sexuality. Examining 1980s porn star Jeannie Pepper’s career, the author argues that black...

... unnoticeable, racial category, as though embodied in the reductive stereotype of the “toothy whiteness is above race and therefore racially invis- grin.”5 The result is a jokey, mocking image that ible and immune to accountability. The drama of Marshall draws from a horror film aptly entitled Marshall’s...

... of collaborating local offi- throughout their communities. Organizers of the two exhibitions hoped that visual art could play a John Steuart Curry The Fugitive, 1935. • Lithograph. National Museum...

...James Smalls This article constitutes part of my continuously evolving fascination and research into the life, legacy, and visual significance of Féral Benga (1906–57). It foregrounds, in particular, the critical discourses surrounding (Afro)modernism generated by his presence in, and influence...

... inner life which are quiet, audible, visible, and invisible are important to the emergence of his political consciousness. In addi- tion to exploring the film s stereotypical (blaxploi- tation) representations of blackness, my article also shows that extrafilmic factors such as funding from the British...

... these works in the context of the epic 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale Internationale, contemporary representations of Africans and African Americans in French visual culture, and Hayden’s acknowledged penchant for visual satire, I contend that the exaggerated physiognomy and general ridiculousness...