The Racial Imaginary / Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781934200797
Category
race & anti-racism (QPIRG-McGill)
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Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Description
In 2011, poet Claudia Rankine created Open Letter, a web-forum for writers to relate the personal effects and ideological affects of racial difference, and to explore art's struggle to adequately imagine. Collected and introduced here by Rankine and scholar Beth Loffreda, these letters offer a necessary re-opening of the vexed site of raced identity in the arts as practiced and as produced. This urgent project finds a complement in artist max King Cap's curation of contemporary art-images that read and see race - Publisher
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