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A photograph of a gallery installation. The installation is a dyed canvas draped over two wooden sawhorses. The colorful canvas is almost sculptural, folded and bunched in space on top of the sawhorses.

"A" and the Carpenter I, 1973

Sam Gilliam

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Harlem, NY, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1978, printed 2010

Dawoud Bey

A work made of color offset lithograph on white wove paper.

South African Women Unite Against Apartheid, 1975/94

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Mandoza, from the series "Men Only", 2009

Sabelo Mlangeni

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Sabelo Mlangeni

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 oil on panel.

Giafar, 1850s

Alfred Dedreux

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 cattle horn, copper, brass, and iron.

Snuff Container, Possibly mid–late 19th century

Northern Nguni

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Thomas Frederick Arndt

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

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

Panel, Possibly mid–20th century

Kuba

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 pieced of nine strips of cotton; plain weave with bands of supplementary patterning wefts.

Blanket, Mid–20th century

Dogon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Larry Chatman

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 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 gelatin silver print.

Two Young Men, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976, 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 work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Dawoud Bey

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