KARA WALKER--ART 21--STORIES AND HISTORIES
1. Why would someone want to take on making art that reflects one's culture, race, and identity?
2. Can a person of one culture, race, and identity make work about another culture, race, and identity?
3. How are stereotypes created and perpetuated? How are stereotypes used in movies and books?
4. Why does she choose to use the medium of a cut paper silhouette? How does this way of making contribute to the meaning of the work?
5. How have different stories about the Civil War framed our understanding of the events and consequences of that time? How do history textbooks, movies, slave memoirs, and novels like Gone With the Wind represent those stories in different ways?
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