Many Mansions

The transformations brought to bear on representations of black people in Western art at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first were the result of numerous social, cultural, and political factors. First and foremost was the living presence of black artists within the institutions of artistic production. Artists of African descent had always been active in the world of...

​On the threshold of a new millennium, how should we proceed with the dialogue about art made by African Americans? It is often difficult for many late twentieth-century viewers to recognize how irrevocably informed we continue to be by ideologies of race...