Slideshow: Kevin Quashie

Slideshow from Kevin Quashie's Race & Image Presentation

Title Slide: Race & Image in America. Brown University. January 27, 2021. Kevin Quashie.

Slide 2: “Rather than presenting the world, icons represent it,” quoted from Sander L. Gilman's “Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature”

Slide 3: Regarding art, medicine, and literature, also see: Denise Murell, Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today; Nicole Fleetwood, Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness; Jasmine Nicole Cobb, Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century

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Slide 5: Michelle Obama, 2021 Presidential Inauguration. Photo: Getty Images

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Slide 7: Four charcoal portraits of Black figures combined with artifacts like cloth flowers or a letter opener. Whitfield Lovell, images from Kin (edited by Irving Sandler, Skira Rizzoli, 2016)

Slide 8: Poster for Precious featuring Gabby Sidibe (dir. Lee Daniels, Lionsgate, 2009)

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Slide 10: Kehinde Wiley, “Femme piquée par un serpent,” 2008; Amy Sherald, “The Girl Next Door,” 2019; Lorna Simpson, “Double Portrait 1,” 2012

Slide 11: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, panel #46, 1940–1941

Slide 12: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, panels 1, 40, 58

Slide 13: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, panel #46, 1940–1941

Slide 14: Parker Curry, a young Black girl, looks up at Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama in the National Portrait Gallery. Photo credit: Ben Hines

Slide 15: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, panel #46, 1940–1941

Slide 16: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, panel #46, 1940–1941 — featured along with the quote, “Industries attempted to board their labor in quarters that were oftentimes very unhealthy. Labor camps were numerous”