In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Weathersby, Irvin
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Weathersby, Irvin

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

A stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white...
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Author: Irvin Weathersby
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Weathersby, Irvin

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

$67.95
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Weathersby, Irvin

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

$67.95
Author: Irvin Weathersby
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces, from a captivating new literary voice

Amid the ongoing reckoning over America's history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot the country's landscape, while schools and street signs continue to bear the names of segregationists. With poignant, lyrical prose, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby confronts the inescapable specter of white supremacy in our open spaces and contemplates what it means to bear witness to sites of lasting racial trauma.

Weathersby takes us from the streets of his childhood in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward to the Whitney Plantation; from the graffitied pedestals of Confederate statues lining Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, to the location of a racist terror attack in Charlottesville; from the site of the Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota to a Kara Walker art installation at a former sugar factory in Brooklyn, New York. Along the way, he challenges the creation myths embedded in America's landmarks and meets artists, curators, and city planners doing the same. Urgent and unflinchingly intimate, In Open Contempt offers a hopeful reimagining of the spaces we share in order to honor our nation's true history, encouraging us to make room for love as a way to heal and treat each other more humanely.

Author: Irvin Weathersby
Publisher: Viking
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780593299159

About the Author
Irvin Weathersby is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He has earned degrees from Morehouse College, Morgan State University, and The New School, where he studied English literature, education, and creative writing, respectively. Since 2003, he has been an educator in various capacities, first as a high school teacher in Baltimore and later as an adult educator in college and library settings. He currently is a full-time professor at Queensborough Community College, where he teaches composition and creative writing.
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