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Kara Walker and slavery

Sculpting History: Exploring Kara Walker’s ‘A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby’ and Its Impact on Art

American modern artist Kara Walker is renowned for her avant-garde silhouette paintings. Walker, born in Stockton, California, on November 26, 1969, is well-known for her provocative and frequently contentious examinations of race, gender, sexuality, and identity throughout American history. Walker is known for his large-scale, intricately detailed black paper cutouts placed directly on the walls […]

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Kara Walker: The Horrors of Slavery, Rape and Murder in a Black Fairy Tale

How the ‘Caribbean or Afro’ society was created, Pro. Fabienne Viala claimed they have been shaped by the ‘slave trade, the plantation system and structural racism’. Exploiting their bodies, land, and resources is the nature of this white-black co-living and the denial of socioeconomic chances. The Caribbean and Afro society was wounded by racial discrimination,

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