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Lois Mailou Jones first became interested in art at age seven when her parents gave her crayons and encouraged her to draw. More than 80 years later, she is still creating art, responding to the influence of different cultures and political events through her work.
First of all, Choi lumps all Asian Americans into one category and assumes that all of these make up the group that has been able to succeed. In fact, Asian Americans are a diverse group of people with different languages, different cultures and different needs. Many Asian Americans struggle to...
North American native cultures showed enormous diversity by 3300 B.C. Among the oldest village sites ever found is the Koster settlement, in the Illinois River Valley. Villagers there were barely beginning to cultivate wild plants, relying mostly on nuts, grasses, fish, deer and migrating waterfowl, while people across Europe, Africa...
"Artists in this country have become the enemy to the conservative and religious right," says Alliger. "[The right] no longer has communism to attack....The artist has replaced that." Lamenting the fate of creativity here, he added, "America is one of the only countries that really undervalues the artist. European...
The tension between these divided loyalties animates nearly all of Walcott's poetry. Rather than seeing his position as impossible -- a poet on the margins of two mutually exclusive cultures -- Walcott adopted this dilemma as one of his principal subjects. In this respect, much of his work is self-conscious...