7.10 Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, Kamal Sinclair, and Chris...

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Description: Question Bridge: Black Males

TitleQuestion Bridge: Black Males

Creator nameThomas, Hank WillisSmith, Bayete RossSinclair, KamalJohnson, Chris

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican; Unknown; Unknown; American

Creator roleArtist

Creation date2012

Object typeInstallation

MaterialsThree-hour digital video and interactive website: questionbridge.com and installation

LocationNational Museum of African American History, Washington, DC

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsAfrican American artistsMen, BlackBlack people--Race identity

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Chapter 7. Bodies: Commoditization and Branding

Cheryl Finley

Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

IN THIS CHAPTER, we turn to the (re)commodification of the black body in the late twentieth century and today by examining artists who have recast the slave ship icon to interrogate this centuries-old problem of exploitation and dehumanization. The grassroots artist activist collective Resistant Strains, the filmmaker Marc Levin, and the installation artist Stephen Hayes deploy the slave...

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Cheryl Finley

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.177-193

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00260.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21707&redirecttoanchor=69785

Chapter subject tags:Slave shipsCriminal justice systemRacial profiling in law enforcementTransatlantic slave trade in artMiddle passageVisual metaphorAfrican American artistsArtists, BlackArt, American--20th centuryThomas, Hank Willis, 1976-

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