A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence

An important examination of how artists have grappled with anti-Black violence and its representations from the late nineteenth century to the present

From the horrors of slavery and lynching to the violent suppression of civil rights struggles and recent acts of police brutality, targeted violence of Black lives has been an ever-present fact in American history. Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the devel...