Artists

  • Quilters of Gee’s Bend
  • Sanford Biggers
  • Titus Kaphar
  • Carrie Mae Weems
  • Noah Purifoy

Symbols

  • Clothing
    • Stripped of clothing = stripped of power, especially for women who are being objectified
    • Deguerreotypes and scientific photography were particularly racist because they analyzed the Black body by stripping it and looking for differences
      • Ties to idea of polygenesis, or the idea that different races are of different species, thus reinforcing a racial hierarchy
    • More clothing implies control over one’s image, self-determination