The Driskell Center | DO-FOR-SELF: The Visual Culture of the Nation of Islam | Christiane Gruber
The Driskell Center | DO-FOR-SELF: The Visual Culture of the Nation of Islam | Christiane Gruber
College of Arts and Humanities | David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora | History
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Taliaferro Hall,
2110 (Berlin Room)
This talk explores the type of Islamic visual culture crafted in Muhammad Speaks in order to expand both Islamic Art History and Critical Race Art History, above all to take into account the influence for a modern American racialized landscape on locutionary and pictorial expressions that are couched as empathetically "Islamic."
LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED, send RSVP to wbernard@umd.edu