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Article: Post-soul aesthetics in contemporary African American art.(Critical essay)
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- African American Review
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- December 22, 2007
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In 1926, W. E. B. Du Bois announced to a meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that all art must be propaganda to help improve the condition of the race (22). Du Bois's own foray into visual culture certainly follows this prescription.
For the 1900 Paris Exposition, he collected a series of images to describe the progress of African Americans since the Civil War. Du Bois carefully selected images that portrayed the successful integration of African Americans into capitalism and demonstrated that African Americans shared core middle class American values (D. L. Lewis 30). Despite his articulation of double consciousness ...