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Black Is White Mask

Black Is White Mask

Black Is, Black Ain’t by Marlon Riggs It might be customary to talk about an artwork or an artist, by beginning with a critique of what she or he didn’t do. It might be useful to point out that Marlon Riggs’s video Black Is, Black Ain’t often takes aim at fairly easy,...
Julie Dash – Daughters of the Dust

Julie Dash – Daughters of the Dust

In 1991, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust arrived as a landmark work of Black independent cinema, tracing the Peazant family’s final day on the Sea Islands before their migration north. Shot with a painterly attention to Gullah Geechee custom and...
Julie Dash – Relatives

Julie Dash – Relatives

Relatives It might be customary to talk about an artwork or an artist, by beginning with a critique of what she or he didn’t do. It might be useful to point out that Marlon Riggs’s video Black Is, Black Ain’t often takes aim at fairly easy, predictable targets, like...
Halie Gerima – Child of Resistance

Halie Gerima – Child of Resistance

Children of Resistance It might be customary to talk about an artwork or an artist, by beginning with a critique of what she or he didn’t do. It might be useful to point out that Marlon Riggs’s video Black Is, Black Ain’t often takes aim at fairly easy, predictable...
Edward Bland – Cry of Jazz

Edward Bland – Cry of Jazz

Cry of Jazz It might be customary to talk about an artwork or an artist, by beginning with a critique of what she or he didn’t do. It might be useful to point out that Marlon Riggs’s video Black Is, Black Ain’t often takes aim at fairly easy, predictable targets, like...