To describe a life : essays at the intersection of art and race terror / Darby English.

By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art-and of love-as resources amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in or for our tumultuous present. Addressing themes of...

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Main Author: English, Darby, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, March 2019.
Series:Richard D. Cohen lectures at Harvard University
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Physical Description:134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Format: Book

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