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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Eudora Welty in Context: Representing Race in New Deal Photography

Eudora Welty in Context: Representing Race in New Deal Photography places Welty’s work on the New Deal project in the context of her contemporaries to make this point. Further complicating the representation of race in the 1930s are historical photos documenting the black community around Farish Street in Jackson. These urban, middle class, educated subjects stand in stark contrast to the predominantly white assumption of black life in Mississippi.

The exhibition will be on display from August 30 to October 28 in the Department of Art Gallery (McComas Hall). The opening reception will take place on September 8, from 5.30 to 7.30 pm.

For more information please visit the link below:
http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/artnews/