Escaping the horde: Objectivity in Black art

I noticed in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Art and Such” references to Black Americans as a “horde” or “mass” (2, 9). However, her rhetorical use of these words is distinctly different than how I had noted these or similar terms being used before. Having examined black physicality and mass in Space Traders, I wanted to put…

Blackness as mass en masse

<<“Three characteristic things one might have seen in Sherman’s raid through Georgia, which threw the new situation in shadowy relief: the Conqueror, the Conquered, and the Negro. Some see all significance in the grim front of the destroyer, and some in the bitter sufferers of the Lost Cause. But to me neither soldier nor fugitive…