Affiliation:
1. Krista A. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University and an independent curator. She is the author of An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Duke University Press, 2006) and is currently working on a book and documentary on visual culture and black youth in the northern Caribbean and southern US that investigates intersections between vernacular forms of photography, performance, and contemporary art.
Abstract
During the late 1990s, participants in Freaknic, the annual black college spring break gathering, were greeted by the Atlanta police in riot gear. Defying the police, women gave impromptu performances, sometimes stripping for participants' cameras. Thompson shows how these performances were a response not only to the city's treatment of Freaknic but also to Atlanta's long history of using force to control race, gender, and class.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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