Racial Formations in the United States & Aesthetic Resistance in the 21st Century Open Access
Mitchell, Morgan (Spring 2019)
Abstract
This thesis provides a framework for looking at Black aesthetic practices as a form of resistance. I present an investigation of Black art that details the unique perspectives of Black people. The proclamation of Black life that arises out of Black aesthetics demonstrates the ways in which the unique experiences and perspectives of Black people are showcased as a means of affiliation and a form of cultural praxis that is harnessed in its depiction. Cultural formations and assemblages perform a resistance, as they express how the recognition and the thoughtful depiction of culture complicates racial binaries.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Becoming Black and its Beautiful Journey 1
Chapter 1: Defining Black Aesthetics: Neal, Gayle, and Taylor 3
Chapter 2: Normalization and White Supremacy as a Political and 9
Epistemological System in the U.S
Chapter 3: Blackness and its Social and Cultural Construction 13
Chapter 4: Racialized Aesthetics and “Aesthetic Racialization” 17
Chapter 5: The Twentieth Century and Black Arts Movements 20
Chapter 6: Kerry James Marshall and his Aesthetic Practices 24
Chapter 7: Fahamu Pecou: Contemporary Art with a Yoruba Perspective 33
on Ritualization, Identity, Culture, and Race
Chapter 8: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Diaspora Identity 38
Conclusion: Art History and Art/Painting as Love as 46
Revolutionary Resistance
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