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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Introduction: Kymberly N. Pinder
I. Black Athenas, Semitic Devils and Black Magi: Reading Race from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
1. Just Like Us: Cultural Constructions of Sexuality and Race in Roman Art: John R. Clarke
2. Imaging the Self: Identity and Gender in Representations in a Yiddish Books of Customs: Diane Wolfthal
3. A Sanctified Black: Maurice: Jean Devisse
II. Imag(in)ing Race in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
4. The Imaginary Orient: Linda Nochlin
5. Only Women should go to Turkey: Henriette Brown and the Orientalist Female Gaze: Reina Lewis
6. The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality: Sander Gilman
7. Going Native: Abigail Solomon-Godeau
8. Racism, Nationalism, and Nostalgia: J. Gray Sweeney
9. Blacks in Shark- Infested Waters: Albert Boime
10. Making a Man of Him: Masculinity and the Black Body in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Sculpture: Michael Hatt
III. Modernism and its Primitive Legacy
11. Histories of the Tribal and the Modern: James Clifford
12. The White Peril and L'Art nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism: Patricia Leighten
13. New Encounters with Les 'Desmoiselles d' Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism: Anna C. Chave
14. Wilfredo Lam: Painter of Negritude: Robert Linsley
15. Sargent Johnson: Afro-Californian Modernist: Judith Wilson
16. Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism: Cornel West
17. In Search of the Inauthentic: Disturbing Signs in Contemporary Native American Art: Jean Fisher
18. Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat: bell hooks
IV. Race-ing Us: White, Beige, Brown, and Black in the Twentieth Century
19. International Abstraction in a National Context: Abstract Paintings in Korea, 1910- 1965: Jae- Ryung Roe
20. The Other Immigrant: The Experience and Achievements of Afro-Asian Artists: Rasheed Araeen
21. Reframing the Black Subject: Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Representation: Okwui Enwezor
22. Biraciality and Nationhood in Twentieth-Century American Art: Kymberly N. Pinder
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About the author
Kymberly N. Pinder is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Summary
This is a comprehensive anthology, which place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas, drawing on multiculturalism, post colonialism and critical race theory.
