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A work made of gelatin silver print.

Morning Blues, from the series "Men Only", 2009

Sabelo Mlangeni

A work made of raffia, plain weave; embroidered in stem stitches and running stitches cut to form pile.

Panel, Possibly mid–20th century

Mushenge

How Do You Get a Nigger Out of a Tree?

How Do You Get a Nigger Out of a Tree?, 1987

Carrie Mae Weems

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight with a Geometric Design, 18th/19th century

Asante

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Ballerinas, Bud Bilikin Day Parade, Hyde Park, Chicago, 1987

Thomas Frederick Arndt

A white sheet of paper covered in the word "Backlash," printed over and over again in black. The words overlap and intersect and split up, creating a gradient—light at the top of the paper, and dark (almost illegible) at the bottom.

Backlash, Backlash..., 1991

Glenn Ligon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Watching the Whores Fight, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

Charcoal portrait of the African American artist Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence wears a suit jacket and checked shirt with a tie; he has a mustache and his mouth opens in a half smile. The words "Jake Lawrence" are written in the bottom left.

Jacob Lawrence, 1957

Joseph Delaney

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Two Young Men, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976, printed 2011

Dawoud Bey

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Two Girls in Front of Lady D's, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1976, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of carbon pigment print.

A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th Street Movie Theater, from the portfolio "Harlem, U.S.A." (2005), 1976, printed 2005

Dawoud Bey

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Continence of Scipio, c. 1706

Sebastiano Ricci

A work made of cattle horn, copper, brass, and iron.

Snuff Container, Possibly mid–late 19th century

Northern Nguni

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Woman at a Parade, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1977, printed 2011

Dawoud Bey

Advertisement for Breck shampoo, featuring a light-skinned white woman with shiny, short brown hair and red lips. There are a few outlines drawn onto the ad. The artist used this as a model for his drawing of Ella Fitzgerald.

Breck Girl, n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

A mountainous landscape set against gray skies lies beyond a dirt road or railroad tracks made up of horizontal and parallel black lines.

Til We Meet Again, 1935

Walter Ellison

Abstract black-and-white print. On the left curved and looped thin white lines form a face or human-like shape atop a longer long curved line. On the right is a curved field of white patterned by curving black lines.

Esther, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight with a Geometric Design, 18th/19th century

Asante

A white stalk-like form on a black background. The stalk, grounded on the right, curves up and to the left, culminating in a drooping teardrop bud that encloses a single seed.

Karintha, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of brush and black ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper.

Graduation, 1948

Jacob Lawrence

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