Absence and Presence: Nona Faustine and the Black Body in the National History of the United States

How should the history of Black Americans be included in the physical landscape and memorialised? What new visual vocabularies are needed to expand the idea of the nation? Nona Faustine’s White Shoes series (begun in 2012) provides a compelling counternarrative to stereotypical and racist representa...

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Main Author: Karen Shelby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peristyle 2022-07-01
Series:Studies on National Movements
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Online Access:https://openjournals.ugent.be/snm/article/id/85269/