8/31/2023 0 Comments Over colonization endless space 2![]() ![]() To an American audience, I imagine, this black woman could easily read as “Mammy.” To a viewer from the wider diaspora-to a black Briton, say-she is perhaps less likely to invoke the stereotypical placidity of “Mammy,” hewing closer to the fury of her mythological opposite, the legendary Nanny of the Maroons: escaped slave, leader of peoples. She is having the air squeezed out of her by a larger, bare-breasted black woman, who wears a kerchief around her head. ![]() One is a slim, white woman, in antebellum underskirt and corset. Two women are bound at the waist, tied to each other. ![]() Kara Walker: what I want history to do to me, 1994
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