"Published in association with the British Association for American Studies"--Page 4 of cover.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-257) and index.
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'The slave who paints': beginnings and the visual arts tradition -- 'Establishing an art era' in the Harlem renaissance -- Struggle, survival and early abstraction -- 'Images are weapons': history, narrative and a people's art -- 'Art comes to have a life of its own': aesthetics, experimentation and a new visual language -- 'Racist pathology is the muck': towards a transgressive visual poetics.