This final installment of my interview with Rita Williams-Garcia is a little different. Take a look at this image and tell me what you see:
I first came across this image in the feminist gallery at the Brooklyn Museum; the following blurb explains how this needlework inspired a contemporary feminist artist, yet makes no mention of the presence of an enslaved black woman, and how HER unpaid domestic labor might have enabled the central white female figure to later have the leisure time needed ...
Published on June 03, 2010 05:15