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Whence Comes Black Art?: The Construction And Application Of “Black Motivation”, Derrell Acon
Whence Comes Black Art?: The Construction And Application Of “Black Motivation”, Derrell Acon
Lawrence University Honors Projects
George Schuyler, in his tragically misguided 1926 essay for The Nation magazine, “The Negro-Art Hokum,” suggests that the only difference between Blacks and Whites is the color of skin, and that both races experience the same social, psychological and educational forces in America. He blatantly disregards American racism and inequality, and in his attempt to put forth his advocacy of color-blindness he merely projects and perpetuates the most racist of ideals within our country. Schuyler views the concept of Black Art very narrowly and insists on the impossibility of such an idea because of the supposed Americanness of the art. …