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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 gelatin silver print.

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

Thomas Frederick Arndt

A work made of screenprint on white wove paper.

L.H.O.O.Q. (X), from Re-print, 2009

Kendell Geers

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

A work made of burnished blackware ceramic.

Storage Jar, c. 1900

Sara Fina Tafoya

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 color offset lithograph on white wove paper.

South African Women Unite Against Apartheid, 1975/94

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Larry Chatman

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

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 oil on canvas.

The Continence of Scipio, c. 1706

Sebastiano Ricci

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

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 copper alloy.

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

Asante

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 copper alloy.

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

Asante

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 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

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