HSTAA 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: African Art, Social Class
20 Oct 2016
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No difference between races so there should be no difference in art. Making black art a different category implies racial differences: fuels racism and reinforces negative stereotypes. African art (from africa) is true black art and it isn"t american. De nition of american: nationality is american, everyone has the same cultural in uences and environment: european society. Social class automatically creates differences, so black and white are not the same. Questions the de nition of the american: middle to upper class white: some black artists were submitting to the standard of white art as what they should attempt to attain. When black artists paint white subjects, they are reinforcing the stereotype is beautiful and the best, thus black people are inferior. Black art shows the individuality of and within the race.
