Race Experts

Linda Kim is an associate professor of American and modern art history at Drexel University.
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List of contents

List of Illustrations    
Series Editors’ Introduction    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
Chapter One. Racial Know-How: Expertise versus Common Sense    
Chapter Two. Mediations: Art in the Natural History Museum    
Chapter Three. Racial Portraiture: Between Typologies and Common Sense    
Chapter Four. Racial Homelands: Popular Geography and Local Races    
Chapter Five. Micro-Expertise: Passing for Indian, Passing for White    
Conclusion    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    

About the author

Linda Kim is an associate professor of American and modern art history at Drexel University.

 

Summary

A compelling examination of Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind. Comprised of 104 life-size bronzes, the Races of Mankind was the largest exhibit on race installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Kim
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781496201850
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0185-0
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology; Critical Studies in the Histor; Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history