Race
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Ricardo Cortés: The Act of Whitening
May 7, 2014 -
Writer and illustrator Ricardo Cortés presents a series of drawings referencing sugar, the slave labor central to its historic manufacture and the blue delft iconography of its early distributors. More -
Tracy K. Smith: Photo of Sugar Cane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891
May 6, 2014 -
Poet Tracy K. Smith responds to a historic photograph of Jamaican sugar plantation workers, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory. More -
Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar
May 5, 2014 -
To accompany artist Kara Walker’s first large-scale public project, A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory from May 10 to July 6, novelist Edwidge Danticat explores labor conditions on contemporary sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. More -
A Different Type of Beauty:
Painter Mickalene Thomas Eulogizes Her Late MotherFebruary 24, 2014 -
Artist Mickalene Thomas commemorates the life of her late mother, whose conviction and resilience inspired Thomas to make a series of paintings and photographs in tribute to “Mama Bush.” More -
If We Don’t Connect It to Race and Class, Then Green Politics Is Just High-End Consumerism
February 17, 2014 -
Instead of advocating “green” lifestyles that are financially and culturally inaccessible to millions of Americans, artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph proposes we ask: What sustains life in a community? More