The thinker as a black man the New Negro renaissance – a physical riposte to the racism of 1920s America
Martin-Breteau, Nicolas
The thinker as a black man the New Negro renaissance – a physical riposte to the racism of 1920s America - 2024.
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Taking as its staring point the cover of the May 1923 issue of The Messenger magazine, this piece looks at how celebrating the power of the black body and mind during the New Negro Renaissance constituted a visual anti-racist strategy for countering racial stigmatisation and oppression. By presenting Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker as a black man, this cover confronted head-on the purely physical source of racial hatred and sought to turn the body into a source of pride for the black community and to overturn the dominant stereotypes of the black body as inferior.
The thinker as a black man the New Negro renaissance – a physical riposte to the racism of 1920s America - 2024.
68
Taking as its staring point the cover of the May 1923 issue of The Messenger magazine, this piece looks at how celebrating the power of the black body and mind during the New Negro Renaissance constituted a visual anti-racist strategy for countering racial stigmatisation and oppression. By presenting Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker as a black man, this cover confronted head-on the purely physical source of racial hatred and sought to turn the body into a source of pride for the black community and to overturn the dominant stereotypes of the black body as inferior.
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