To describe a life [electronic resource] : notes from the intersection of art and race terror / Darby English.

"By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art-and love-as a resource 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 that address themes of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: English, Darby, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press in association with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, [2019]
Series:Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art.
Subjects:
African Americans in art.
Police in art.
Racism in art.
Violence in art.
African American art > 21st century.
Police brutality > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
African Americans > Violence against > United States.
Art and society.
Art and race.
Black people in art.
Online Access:
A&AePortal: 2019
Variant Title:
Notes from the intersection of art and race terror
To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
Format: Electronic eBook

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