IVC Research Table: Race of Colors

IVC RESEARCH TABLE FORM
Student’s Name
Class
Date
Article Citation Information
Golden, Thelma. 1994. Black Male. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
Research Table
Quotation

Paraphrase

Interpretation

“The black body has always received attention within the framework of white supremacy, as racist/sexist iconography has been deployed to perpetuate notions of innate biological inferiority.”[Golden, Thelma. 1994. Black Male. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art]

Golden expounds that the whites have always been concerned on the black people. The whites have used the gender and race iconography to enhance the understanding of the instinctive biological inferiority.

Black people have always been inferior when compared to the whites. In the ancient, Most of the white people held the perception that black people were useless individuals and did not deserve to hold any place in the world. Therefore, they attempted to investigate more about black people. They identified that although race created the difference between whites and blacks, they had something in common such as reasoning, working, communicating, and e.t.c. However, they attempted to research further about Black people, by deploying the gender and race iconography to enhance their understanding of the innate biological inferiority of blacks.

“Acknowledging the Primacy of race in relation to feminist and psychoanalysis thinking about body politics is a critical standpoint...