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Ebony roots, northern soil : perspectives on blackness in Canada
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ISBN: 1283141787 1443826049 9786613141781 9781443826044 9781283141789 1443825646 9781443825641 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars,

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Ebony Roots, Northern Soil is a powerful and timely collection of critical essays exploring the experiences, histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. Drawing from postcolonial, critical race and black feminist theory, this innovative anthology brings together an extraordinary set of well-recognized and new scholars engaging in the critical debates about the cultural politics of identity and issues of cultural access, representation, production and reception. Emerging from a nati...


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The color of stone : sculpting the black female subject in nineteenth-century America
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ISBN: 081665414X Year: 2007 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculptureÑcolor. Considering three major worksÑHiram PowersÕs Greek Slave, William Wetmore StoryÕs Cleopatra, and Edmonia LewisÕs Death of CleopatraÑshe explores the intersection of race, sex, and class to reveal the meanings each work holds in terms of colonial histories of visual representation.


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Representing the black female subject in Western art
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ISBN: 9780415871167 9781138864610 9780203851241 9781136968020 9781136968068 9781136968075 1138864617 0415871166 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge

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Nelson analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented in Western art, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized Western representation have been. She poses questions about the concepts of production, the consequences of comsumption and more.

Racism, Eh? : a critical inter-disciplinary anthology of race and racism in Canada
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ISBN: 1553220617 Year: 2004 Publisher: Concord, Ont. : Captus Press,

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Black Victorians : Black People in British Art 1800-1900 (exhibition Manchester Art Gallery, 1 October 2005 - 6 January 2006 ; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 28 January - 2 April 2006)
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ISBN: 0853319308 Year: 2005 Publisher: Aldershot : Lund Humphries,

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