VII: Abolition & Emancipation -- African Americans in American Art (19th-20th centuries)

8/2/2004


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VII: Abolition & Emancipation -- African Americans in American Art (19th-20th centuries)

Stereotypes: early-middle 1800s

Black stereotypes in American art

Image & phrenology

Whites as Blacks: Minstrelsy (1)

Whites as Blacks: Minstrelsy(2)

Minstrelsy stereotyping & the “Other”

Whites as Blacks: “Jim Crow”

The Abolition/Emancipation Movement

Representing slave life

Representing the post-bellum

The Civil War and After: Freedom Sculpture

Equality in sculpture

Civil War reprisals: lynching

Cultural memory: lynching in sculpture

All is not lost: a look forward in black arts

Protest in 20th-C black art

Quintessentially “American”: Jazz

From Blacks’ Backs to Others’: Looking Westward

“VII: Abolition & Emancipation -- African Americans in American Art” themes, terms, concepts, artists

Author: Tina & Nick Melczarek

Email: nickym@melczarek.net

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