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For this week's discussion, review the Powerpoint (also available as pdf ).
Each small group of approximately three students (see the list below) should
choose three artists/artworks to investigate.
**If you have trouble with your group members being non-responsive, please join
another group.
Step ONE: In small groups of three students, choose three artworks from the
list provided and discuss
 how, where, and why you see the traditions of protest + resistance in the
work and
 how, where, and why you see traces of the elusive interior space Quashie
maps in his text, the sovereignty of the quiet.
Which visual strategies do you see in their work to protest, conjure the sovereign
space of the quiet, or do both?
Step TWO:
 After your small group has discussed three works, begin interacting with
other groups’ discussions.
 Choose three groups whose discussion interests you and interact,
individually, with their discussion by commenting, raising questions, or
adding further observations to their discussion.
General questions of representation and purpose:
Is the program of political uplift this week’s writers associate with Black Art
Movement “done”? Or do you see lingering evidence of the imperative to represent
in the works your group chose to focus on? When do you think it is time to let go of
“the imperative to represent”?
Is art’s imperative to serve a social function (ever) over? Why? Why not? Who gets
to decide? Who gets held accountable? Who should represent whose history?
How would you respond to bell hooks’ concern that associating social purpose with
art may confine both art and artists?