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Kind of Blue

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Fri Apr 5, 2019, 11:12 AM Apr 2019

White at the Museum [View all]

In a segment titled “White at the Museum” aired yesterday (April 3) on Samantha Bee’s satirical program on TBS, Full Frontal, the Lucas Brothers respond in a light-hearted way to white nationalists’s use of Greek and Roman statues in their propaganda as a proof of the superiority of white culture. But if they end up watching this episode, alt-righters would be disappointed to learn that the whiteness of their beloved statues is but a myth. https://hyperallergic.com/493470/a-satirical-take-on-the-whiteness-of-classical-sculpture/

Features Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Iowa, and Assistant Professor Chenjerai Kumanyika from Rutgers University, researcher, journalist, an artist, who joined in on the fun of destructing the myth of whiteness in antiquity.


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White at the Museum [View all] Kind of Blue Apr 2019 OP
even the myths themselves are not white DonCoquixote Apr 2019 #1
Exactly right! And Medusa in the same story Kind of Blue Apr 2019 #2
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