How Should We Understand the Shocking Use of Stereotypes in the Work of Historical Black Artists? It’s About the Satirical Tradition of ‘Going There’

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How Should We Understand the Shocking Use of Stereotypes in the Work of Historical Black Artists? It’s About the Satirical Tradition of ‘Going There’
Archibald Motley Jr., Lawd, Mah Man's Leavin', 1940. Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA; Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration; American, in copyright.

An excerpt of Going There: Black Visual Satire, the new book by Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History and African & African American Studies, was recently published by Artnet News.