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Darby English
Description: To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
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Darby English
PublisherYale University Press
PublisherHutchins Center for African & African American Research
Copyright© 2019 by Darby English
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00170.008
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Abernathy, Ralph, 117
abstraction: in Baldwin’s works, 14
in Boym Partners’ Lorraine Motel, 108
in Marshall’s works, 34, 38–39
in Pope.L’s works, 63, 73, 79–81, 125n36
Adams, Neal, 83
alterity, 80–81, 85, 109
Andrews, Benny: No More Games, 7–9, 8
Bailey, Walter and Loree, 102
Baker, Ella, 128n48
Baldwin, James, 119n21, 119n26
The Fire Next Time, 11–20
Black Arts Movement, 87
Black Lives Matter, 23–24, 25, 39
Black Power, 92
Boas, Franz, 95
Bourland, D. David, 122n4
Boym, Constantin, 127nn34–35
Boym Partners, 127n34
Buildings of Disaster, 97, 98, 128n40
Lorraine Motel, April 4, 1968, 5–6, 96, 97–117, 99, 103, 104, 107
Brittin, Charles: Untitled, Civil Rights Demonstration No. 1, 90, 92
Brown, Michael, 1, 7, 9
Bryson, Norman, 120n10
Carmichael, Stokely, 89
Castile, Philando, 1, 2
Castoriadis, Cornelius, 79, 80, 85, 114
Civil Rights Movement, 91–92, 111, 116, 128n43
“cocoon of nearness,” 26, 120n10
color, use of: in Boym Partners’ Lorraine Motel, 107
cultural logic of, 81
and difference, 20
language of, 65, 78–79, 80, 82
in Marshall’s Untitled, 26
in Pope.L’s works, 47, 55, 63, 65, 73, 75, 79–80
theories of, 80–84, 124–25n26
complexity, 10, 84, 88, 94, 97
Connor, Bull, 14
consciousness, 2, 7, 13–14
Cooke, Sam, 89
corporeality, 76, 118–19n12
countersurveillance, 120n2
Crimp, Douglas, 4
cultural mobility, 6
cultural pluralism, 87
cultural politics, 94, 117
cultural space, 9, 92
culture: Baldwin on, 14
crisis in, 4
and deracialization, 88
and discomposure, 21
Ellison on, 86–89, 91
and interracialization, 90, 93–94, 108–12, 114, 129n54
of motels, 115–17, 129nn60–61
in Pope.L’s works, 81
desegregation, 114, 117, 129n54
Dewey, John, 95
Dickinson, Emily, 5
Didion, Joan, 120n5
difference: Baldwin on, 14–15, 19
and color, 20, 84
and discomposure, 21
King on, 92, 108
Kohn on, 95–96
in Leonard’s Tipping Point, 17–18, 19–22
objectified, 109
politics of, 117
in Pope.L’s works, 5, 47, 63, 65, 75, 78, 84–85, 123n12
discomposure, 21, 86, 88–93, 97, 126n2
Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP), 89, 127n20
Ellison, Ralph, 86–89, 91, 126nn2–3
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 121–22n3, 124n16
English, Darby: How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, 118n5
1971: A Year in the Life of Color, 118n5, 124n25
Enwezor, Okwui, 120n6
E-Prime (language principle), 122n4
fantasies, 25, 110, 112–13
Fax, Elton, 128–29n48
Freedom Summer (1964), 89–90
Freud, Sigmund, 109–10, 128n43
Garner, Eric, 1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 81
Green Lantern/Green Arrow (comic book), 84
The Guardian on U.S. policing, 2
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, 118n8
Harris, Norman, 97
The Sixties: A Black Chronology, 91
Headliner figurines, 27–28
Heineman, Arthur, 129n60
Hildebrand, Adolf von, 113
Hill, Marc Lamont, 2
historicity, 63, 83–84, 112
Hobbs, Alyson, 127n38
Hoover, J. Edgar, 116–17
interracialization, 90, 93–95, 108–14, 129n54
intimacy, 34, 55, 76–77
irreality, 25, 37, 73, 90
Jenné, Charlie, 128n39
Jim Crow laws, 102
Kantorowicz, Ernst H., 127n32
killings, 2, 4, 12, 15. See also racial violence by police
King, Coretta Scott, 86
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: assassination of, 5–6, 87, 97–117
and Civil Rights Movement, 92, 128n43
Ellison on, 89
on interracial socialization, 93–94
Letters from Birmingham Jail, 109, 111–12
rhetoric of, 88, 93–95, 129n55
Kohn, Hans, 95
Kramer, Stanley: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 89
language, 47, 51, 67, 75–76, 81, 113, 122n4
Lenox School of Jazz, 89
Leonard, Zoe, 119n28
Tipping Point, 11–20, 11, 16, 18, 119n15
Levison, Stanley, 128n48
Lichtenberg, Georg Christian, 81
light, 17, 26, 28, 33, 37, 39
Locke, Alain, 126n2, 127n17
The New Negro, 88
Lorraine Motel, Memphis, 5–6, 96, 97–117
Louw, Joseph, 100
love, 5, 13–14, 19, 25, 91, 96–97
Marquette Hotel, Memphis, 102
Marshall, Kerry James, 10, 22–41, 120n11
Untitled, 36
Untitled (policeman), 6, 10, 22–41, 27, 30–31, 120–21n12
“Mary Don’t You Weep” (song), 119n26
McCarthy, Mary, 120n1
McDonald, Laquan, 1, 10
Mercer, Kobena, 120n6
Miles, Siân, 120n1
Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York), 44, 46, 122n6
modernism, 25, 120
Molesworth, Helen, 120n6
motels, cultural status of, 115–17, 129nn60–61
Muhammad, Elijah, 14
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 42–43, 44
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), 7, 9
mutuality, 111–12, 115
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 116
National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis), 102, 102, 117, 128n39
nationalism, xi, 91
The Negro Motorist Green Book, 102
network of mutuality, 111–12, 115
New York Times Magazine cover (May 10, 2015), 23, 24
Novis, Emile, 120n1
objectification, 72, 80, 109
O’Neil, Dennis, 84
optimism, 87, 94, 111, 114
plenitude, 4–5, 76, 78, 85
Plimack Mangold, Sylvia, 33–35
In Memory of My Father, 34
police: Baldwin on, 14–15
in Marshall’s Untitled, 10, 22–41
racial violence by, 1–3, 7, 10–15
Pope.L, 42–85
Black Is, Black Ain’t, 62
Black People Are a Cave Inside an Earthworm, 57–58, 60, 62
Black People Are Cross-Over, 67, 68
Black People Are the Tie That Binds, 63, 64
Blue People Are the Niggers of the Atmosphere, 50–51, 52–53, 59, 123n7
Brown People Are Aaa Lounge Act at the Bakery, 48, 49
Brown People Are a Gas at Room Temperature, 67, 70
Brown People Are a Theory About Green People, 67, 71
Colored Waiting Room, 44, 46
Green People Are Hope Without Reason, 63, 64
Green People Are Leave-It-To-Beaver with His Cleaver and His Shadow, 56–57, 59
Green People Are My Brother Frank, 54–55, 56, 77
Green People Are on Rice, 56, 58
Green People Are Pea Fuckers, 56
Green People Are Powder, 56, 57
Green People Are White People Who Can’t Escape Their Blackness, 67, 69
Orange People Are the Grid on the Ceiling, 73, 74
Purple People Are I’ll Fuck You Whole Family and Cut They Shit Off, 48
Purple People Are the Color of Blood After Several Days, 52–53, 53, 55
Red People Are a Novel Set in the Head of a Watermoccasin, 63, 64
Skin Set Drawings a.k.a. White Drawings, 5, 42–85, 43, 122nn5–6, 125n36
Skin Set Notes, 63, 66–67
White People Are Angles on Fire, 63, 64
White People Are Pun, 45–46, 46–47, 51
White People Are the Future, 48, 49
Yellow People Are Black People with Tragic Genitalia, 63, 64
racialism, 83
racial violence by police, 1–3, 7, 10–15
Ray, James Earl, 105, 127n33
realness: of art, 3
in Marshall’s works, 28–29, 31, 35, 40, 120–21n12
in Pope.L’s works, 63, 82
in Ryan’s poetry, 124n15
Reinhardt, Mark, 120n8, 127n24
representation: in Andrews’ No More Games, 9
in Boym Partners’ Lorraine Motel, 113
in crisis, 4, 20
in Marshall’s works, 29, 33, 35, 37
in Pope.L’s works, 47, 53, 72–73
primacy of, 37
of victims of police violence, 2–3
rhetoric, 24, 28, 94, 97
Rice, Tamir, 1, 26
Rose, Jacqueline, 92, 127n26
Runge, Philipp Otto, 81
Rustin, Bayard, 117, 128n48
Ryan, Kay, 42, 77, 123–24n15
“No Names,” 124n15
Sagarin, Edward, 65, 122n4
Said, Edward, 92
Sedgwick, Eve, 4, 119n15
self-curiosity, 76
self-defense, 40
self-determination, 91, 110
self-respect, 24–25
semantic spread, 47
Sharpe, Christina, 1, 3, 118n1
Smith, Mychal Denzel, 2
socialism, 129n55
sociality: interracial, 90, 95, 110–11
of space, 35
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 128n48
spatial concentration, 32
Stanley-Jones, Aiyana, 1, 26
Steinberg, Leo, 121n23
Sterling, Alton, 1, 2
Stewart, Michael, 12
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 89
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 89
subjectivity, 4, 63, 115, 124–25n26
Sundquist, Eric, 94
surveillance, 120n2
Thompson, E. P., 6
Thornell, Jack, 101
Till, Emmett, 117
Tolson, Melvin, 126n2
Van Dyke, Jason, 10
Vietnam War, 129n55
violence, 2–3, 111. See also racial violence by police
voguing, 120–21n12
Waquant, Loïc, 118n1
Washburn, Margaret Floy, 95
Watts Riots (1965), 24
weight, 12, 17, 19, 75, 97
Weil, Simone, 22, 25, 38, 39, 40, 120n1, 121n25
wholeness, 72, 76, 87
Wilderson, Frank B., III, 118n1
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 124–25n26, 124n19
Remarks on Colour, 81–82, 83, 123n8, 125n32