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Article: Lost in the male. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; various artists)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 6, 1995
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BLACK PEOPLE, contrary to popular belief, don't exist. That is the message of "Black Male," the latest no-brainer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Well, it isn't actually stated in so many words. Instead, curator Thelma Golden, who is herself black and thus should really know better than to doubt her own existence, begins her virulently trendy catalogue with the following "challenging" observation: "One of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century is the African-American male--'invented' because black masculinity represents an amalgam of fears and projections in the American psyche which rarely conveys or contains the trope of truth about the black male's ...