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2016-12-12T15:32:07.000Z
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Racial Masquerade in American Art & Culture (Part 3 of 3)
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Richardson Symposium: Racial Masquerade in American Art and Culture took place at the National Portrait Gallery, Nov. 4, and Nov. 5, 2016 Recording of Saturday morning, Nov 5: Speakers: Introduction and end-of-panel question moderation Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Senior Fellow, National Portrait Gallery "Painting the Queen Black: Exploring Portraiture, Performance, and the Materiality of Blackface through Inigo Jones’s Designs for Queen Anne’s Masque of Blackness" - Mia L. Bagneris, Jesse Poesch Junior Professor of Art History, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University "Reginald and Gladys Laubin as Cultural Transvestites, 1930 to 1960" - Janet Catherine Berlo, Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester "Racial Masquerade: The Case of F. Holland Day" - Anthony W. Lee Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College "Dance Revolutions: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Popular Culture" - Christopher J. Smith, Professor & Chair of Musicology and Director of the Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University Throughout American history, different forms of racial masquerade have been used to engage issues of difference and group identity. While this kind of dress up has sometimes been a celebratory act, or used by oppressed communities to mock those in power, it has more often been employed by those in power to dehumanize minorities and reassert existing control over them. The Richardson Symposium will bring together scholars and artists who engage these histories in their work. It will also examine contemporary instances of racial masquerade in American culture and the ways that such performances of false identity continue to shape the ways that we see ourselves and others.
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2 hr 27 min 45 sec
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