PUBLIC TALK: Black Bodies, White Gold: cotton, art and the materiality of race
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Black Bodies, White Gold: cotton, art and the materiality of race |
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A public lecture by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University.
This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of blackness in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines how cotton materially influenced the way black Americans were seen, and represented themselves, as both enslaved and free. It argues that tracing this relationship deepens our understanding of the intersections of vision, value and subjectivity in the production of racial identity in nineteenth-century America, and also today.
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