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Not Your Watermelon: Resistance & Recovery in American Art
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November 26, 2021
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26:04Now PlayingAs part of the University of Illinois Chicago's (UIC) Art History Department Colloquium, Dr. Shana Klein, author of "The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion," delivers a talk on the legacy of representations of watermelons in American art. Delving into the racialized representations of the fruit, she ends by connecting them to depictions of food in Thanksgiving.
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