Race

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  Feature

  “What Is Common to All of Us?” Redefining Black Male Identity

  September 23, 2014 - 

  Drawing from his collaborative transmedia project “Question Bridge: Black Males,” the artist Hank Willis Thomas examines the racial context of the 2012 killing of Jordan Davis as the man who shot the 17-year-old Florida resident, Michael Dunn, is retried for murder.  More

  By Hank Willis Thomas

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  Black Radical Brooklyn

  Freed But Not Free

  September 17, 2014 - 

  As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, Creative Time Reports is featuring essays related to the history of African-American struggles for self-determination in Brooklyn. Here, the writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts meditates on the limits to freedom imposed by a legacy of institutionalized racism.  More

  By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

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  Black Radical Brooklyn

  Tempus Fugit in the People’s Republic of BK

  September 17, 2014 - 

  As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, the writer and musician Greg Tate evokes a time and place he calls “Original Brooklyn: the radically Black BK of haute culture and avant-cult leaders.”  More

  By Greg Tate

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  Op-Ed

  Spatial Justice: Rasquachification, Race and the City

  September 15, 2014 - 

  Intervening in discussions about gentrification and placemaking, cultural activist Roberto Bedoya champions the creative resilience found in communities of color—and exemplified by the Chicano practice of Rasquachification—to suggest “placekeeping” as a strategy for advancing racial justice goals.  More

  By Roberto Bedoya

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  Subtlety Series

  Shailja Patel: Unpour

  May 8, 2014 - 

  Writer and performer Shailja Patel dissects the ethical and racialized implications of refining sugar, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory.  More

  By Shailja Patel