RACIALIZED AUTHENTICATION: Constructing Representations of the Florida Highwaymen

    Authors

    A. K. Anthony

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    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

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