Title

RACIALIZED AUTHENTICATION: Constructing Representations of the Florida Highwaymen

Authors

Authors

A. K. Anthony

Comments

Authors: contact us about adding a copy of your work at STARS@ucf.edu

Abbreviated Journal Title

Sociol. Q.

Keywords

IDEOLOGY; RACISM; ART; Sociology

Abstract

This article explores how art world professionals and cultural publicists construct representations of a group of rediscovered black artists, who painted from the end of the Jim Crow era to the present. Examining their writings, statements from interviews, and their interactions with audiences at public events, I show how they represented the artists as both exotic self-taught artists and achievers of the American Dream. I introduce the term racialized authentication to frame a branch of racial rhetoric through which the various actors draw from both traditional racial stereotypes and new racism ideology to construct authentic artists. In conclusion, I address how these findings have implications for the integration of contemporary research on race and sociological studies of art worlds.

Journal Title

Sociological Quarterly

Volume

53

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

394

Last Page

421

WOS Identifier

WOS:000305120100005

ISSN

0038-0253

Share

COinS