![]() ![]() I talked to a group not too long ago, and I said, ‘Well, how do we know that they’re males? How do we know they’re Black males?’ We just assume that, based on other information that we’ve received visually, maybe through the news,” Harris said. “Most of the images were enlarged images that are screen printed, and that are based on photographs of shadowy images of what we believe… hooded Black males. How Weems’ images provoke assumptions, then questions: “I think that Weems is teasing out that interaction between visual imagery and how we understand and perceive groups of people or individuals, based on these, what I call the ‘textbook image’ or the ‘textbook definition’ that’s communicated to us, and then we translate into our own minds, and we believe without often getting all of the details and all the facts about individual situations.” “I always think about the expression ‘textbook definitions,’ or that something is connected to a textbook, and I always think about my own schooling, everything that we learned in social studies… you know, you have these captioned images of different societies and different behaviors people engage in from different groups,” said Harris. Challenging ‘textbook definitions’ through art: ![]()
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