Description
Assignment Topic:
Write a response to the introduction you read to bell hooks’ book Black Looks: Race and Representation called “Revolutionary Attitude.”
Instructions
In that introductory essay (Revolutionary Attitude), she writes, “Unless we transform images of blackness, of black people, our ways of looking and our ways of being seen, we cannot make radical interventions that will fundamentally alter our situation.” (p. 7)
Make a case for one of the artists we’ve looked at in the last few weeks doing just that. Select a work or a body of work from Wendy Red Star, Zig Jackson, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Gabriel García Roman, or Rajkamal Kahlon and explain how the artist is transforming a way of looking and a way of being seen. Your response should be between 300 and 600 words. You may need to research the artist you choose beyond what we’ve looked at in class.
In your writing, you must defend your assertions with evidence, just as in a paper for an English or History class. Articulate an idea, and then “prove it” by pointing to the images, the artists’ words about what they are doing, a curator’s words about how the images function, or any other piece of evidence you can find.