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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is the author of several books and exhibition catalogues, including Represent: 200 Years of African American Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century and
Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker.

Freeman Fisher Gosden and Charles Correll, c. 1935 (detail), as "Amos and Andy"

The Long, Unfortunate History of Racial Parody in America

Art historian Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw discusses the painful performative origins