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Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art was a landmark [1] exhibition held at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art from November 10, 1994 until March 5, 1995. Organized by curator Thelma Golden , Black Male was a survey of the changing representations of black masculinity in contemporary art from the 1970s to the 1990s.
As of 2020, Black residents of Franklin County had a 11.1 percent unemployment rate, about double the overall unemployment. Home ownership rate for Black residents was 33.4 percent, 40 percent lower than the overall rate. 637 of 100,000 were in prison, a rate about three times higher than for the total population in Franklin County.
The exhibition was widely protested for the racism of this exhibition name by artists including Carl Andre, Howardena Pindell, May Stevens, and Lucy Lippard [13] who saw this incident as a key indicator of the systemic racism within the art world. [14] Henry was also outspoken about the implicit racism of Women's Action Committee. [15]
Criticism was the subject of a work by American conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margins of the Black Book (1991–1993). Ligon juxtaposes Mapplethorpe's 91 images of black men in the 1988 publication Black Book with critical texts and personal reactions about the work to complicate the racial undertones of the imagery. [56] American ...
Companies, governments and venture capitalists have been hit with complaints and in some cases federal lawsuits over the constitutionality of supporting minority- or Black-owned businesses.
Black male studies (BMS), [1] also known as Black men's studies, [2] [3] Black masculinist studies, [4] African-American male studies, [5] and African-American men's studies, [6] is an area of study within the interdisciplinary field of Black studies [7] [8] [9] that primarily focuses on the study of Black men and boys. [10]
The percentages are so tiny, it does not even warrant a real political discussion. Take, for instance, the last Georgia gubernatorial election—one of the closest races in the 2018 midterms.
The sculpture depicts ten Black men, encased in concrete, some with their heads sunken into the concrete with their hands up and their eyes closed. [28] Cultural studies scholar Tanja Schult saw Thomas' sculpture as a powerful evocation of the reality of black men in America when coming face to face with law enforcement.