Week 6, Module 7: Representing Race: Black/African American U.S. Women Artists and Feminism
AH 270: Art/Identity/Politics
Week 6, Module 7: Representing Race: Black/African American U.S. Women Artists and Feminism
Lois Mailou Jones, Les Fétiches (1938), Two African Hairstyles (1982)
Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972), Black Girl’s
Window (1969), Equality (1999)
–“Stereotypical grotesque”
Adrian Piper, Catalysis series (1970), Mythic Being series (1973-76), Self-Portrait
Exaggerating My Negroid Features (1981), Political Self-Portrait (1978), Self-Portrait as a Nice White Lady (1995), Funk Lessons (1982-86), Vanilla Nightmare series (1986), Four Intruders Plus Alarm Systems (1980), Cornered (1988), Calling Cards (1986-90)
–CWA (Colored Woman Artist)
Lorraine O’Grady, Mlle. Bourgeois Noire (1980)
Faith Ringgold, The Flag is Bleeding (1967), U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating Black
Power (1967), Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger (1969), The Street Story Quilt (1985), Slave Rape Story Quilt (1985)
Carrie Mae Weems, Family Pictures and Stories (1978-84), Kitchen Table series
(1990s)
–“The Moynihan Report”
Lorna Simpson, Guarded Conditions (1989), The Waterbearer (1986)
–“subjugated knowledge”
Kara Walker, Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and
Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored. (1997), Camptown Ladies (1995)
1870 Blacks enfranchised
1910s-1930s Harlem Renaissance, New Negro Culture
1947 Jackie Robinson (Baseball)
1948 De-segregation of armed services
1954 Brown v. Board of Education
1955 Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 54-week bus boycott (Rosa Parks) in Alabama
1957 Federal Troops sent to Little Rock to enforce school desegregation
1963 March on Washington—Nelson Mandela imprisoned, South Africa
1964 Civil Rights Act—intensification of numerous Black protests around the nation
1965 Watts riots—Malcolm X assassinated
1966 Black Panthers formed, Freedom march in Mississippi, NOW founded
1967 Thurgood Marshall appointed
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
1969 Shirley Chisholm, 1st Black female Representative, WAR founded
2008 Barack Obama elected President
2013 Blacklivesmatter