Books by Kobena Mercer

A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance

In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race.

This text brings a Black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and race during the 1980s. It examines cultural expression in Black film, photography and visual art.