Title

Racialized Authentication: Constructing Representations Of The Florida Highwaymen

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. © 2012 Midwest Sociological Society.

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Sociological Quarterly

Volume

53

Issue

3

Number of Pages

394-421

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01236.x

Socpus ID

84862315149 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84862315149

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