High Tar Babies

This painter and writer focuses on issues of race and the inheritance of slavery. His current work uses tar in order to question assumptions surrounding the concept of blackness. The book includes an introductory essay, thirty eight tar paintings recently exhibited at the Royal College of Art, and short stories centered on the themes of the exhibition: race, hatred, slavery and love. All of the material is concerned with how stereotypes of race and color have come to operate in Britain and ...