Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Dinkins, Stephanie | Levine, Martin | Pindell, Howardena | Thompson, Roger.
Date
2017-05-01
Keywords
Fine arts
Department
Department of Studio Art
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76841
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
A perceived majority of the population in America lacks that shared experience of daily cultural emotional trauma. Those privileges allow them the choice to step outside of their comfort zones and travel within the unfamiliar areas of their consciousness or stay in their blissful reality of conscious ignorance. I don’t know if it is my inquisitive personality or my responsibility as a Native Born Black... adult to understand who I am and the society I live in but I do know that ignorance is not an option. In order to understand something; one has to ask a question. Each work of art in this text starts with a question which subsequently leads to other questions and so on. Each chapter in this thesis is a critical sociological study with the conclusions displayed as visual works. These artistic studies focus on interpretive questions that help to generate engaging discussions on Native Born Black American identity. | A perceived majority of the population in America lacks that shared experience of daily cultural emotional trauma. Those privileges allow them the choice to step outside of their comfort zones and travel within the unfamiliar areas of their consciousness or stay in their blissful reality of conscious ignorance. I don’t know if it is my inquisitive personality or my responsibility as a Native Born Black... adult to understand who I am and the society I live in but I do know that ignorance is not an option. In order to understand something; one has to ask a question. Each work of art in this text starts with a question which subsequently leads to other questions and so on. Each chapter in this thesis is a critical sociological study with the conclusions displayed as visual works. These artistic studies focus on interpretive questions that help to generate engaging discussions on Native Born Black American identity. | 48 pages
Recommended Citation
Wrencher, Dewayne, "Native Born Black: A Collection of Questions" (2017). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2717.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2717