'Behind the Myth of Benevolence.' 2014. TITUS KAPHAR

I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings Between America's Blackness and Whiteness

How would one describe America now? How could one? To do so is as much an exercise in contradiction as self-incrimination. From which stories, which facts, which heroes and villains should the collective American story be narrated? Where does truth reside in a country set between a white history, a black history, and the unsung others? Between Barack Obama and Donald Trump? The American political intelligentsia suggests that America is ‘more divided’ than ever. This is a rather peculiar co
 

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