Word: racistly
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...black artists and curators fear that her use of negative racial imagery, like over-sexed pickaninnies, perpetuates harmful stereotypes rather than subverting them. One established black artist, Betye Saar, even launched a letter campaign which challenged people in the art world to question whether they found Walker's work racist or sexist...
...Walker's opponents often fail to pay attention to the visual characteristic of her art. They write without noticing the peculiarities of her medium, as though she were simply presenting straight-forward racist scenarios in photographs or realistic paintings. But if a silhouette isn't a photograph, then a stereotype isn't a stereotype in Walker's hands...
...level of scale, Walker distorts the niceties of hand-held, 19th century bourgeois silhouettes. The near full-scale images in her surreal world aren't genteel keepsakes or familiar racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...
Unsurprisingly, Graglia's simple honesty elicited the ire of Jesse Jackson, who characterized Graglia's comments as "racist, fascist, inaccurate speech" and recommended that he be treated as a "moral and social pariah." Unsurprisingly and frighteningly, many of Graglia's colleagues on the Texas Law School faculty hoisted Jackson's banner, accusing Graglia of "racial harassment" and asked that he no longer teach classes that included "preferred" (that is, black or Hispanic) students...
...makes me truly sad to see a poster which seems to have no other purpose than to portray me, being a white male, as an ignorant, bigoted, racist. We're all on the same team here. I realize race relations have been adversarial in the past, but the solution is not to direct society's animosity toward a different faction of the population. All of our efforts to create a society truly free from racism are for nought as long as this adversarial system of race relations persists. GREGORY S. NOVAK '00 March...