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VISUAL ADVOCACY/VISUALIZING RACISM

A Concept for Challenging Visualizing Racism

           

     Visual racism seeks to demean, to continually create negative caricatures of cultural characteristics, and is specifically designed to implant the justification for dehumanizing a people in order to subvert and diminish their self-worth and cultural identity as acceptable folk-craft. To visualize racist imagery

you must first acknowledge its long history of racist designed stereotyping and visual intimidation directed toward peoples of differences. Visualized racism, in the arts and media came to a head, for black people, during America’s colonial south.

    Understanding how a system of visual racial injustices has been created and used in the arts so effectively as
a vehicle for the subjugation of others and how it turned into a legitimized media sanctioned institutions arms social justice art makers with a template to undo its messages. Moreover, in trying to answer my own questions, I have often wondered why what we have
done in the arts, as social justice advocates, has had such little effect upon these issues. In my mind, there has been ineffective attempts at challenging the root power of these images produced over the last 200 years save for posters and illustrations of a better world..
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