Question
Thelma Golden’s 2001 exhibition Freestyle introduced the term “post-Black art” for a movement in which African-American artists distance themselves from race while remaining interested in it. For 10 points each:
[10e] Pieces in the exhibition by Mark Bradford and Kori Newkirk incorporated products like pomade, which is most often used with what material? This material is manipulated in Jheri curls and box braids.
ANSWER: hair
[10m] Glenn Ligon, who coined the term “post-Black” with Golden, made many works that place these elements over a white background. Barbara Kruger put these elements in a square overlaid on a hand in I shop therefore I am.
ANSWER: words [or text; or letters]
[10h] The exhibition is a focus of a book by Touré (“too-RAY”) whose title precedes “Post-Blackness” with these three words. In an artwork whose title begins with these three words, a woman opens a Harlem restaurant with her husband, Big Rufus.
ANSWER: Who’s Afraid of [accept Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima?; accept Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?] (Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? is a narrative quilt by Faith Ringgold.)
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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 83% | 0% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 63% | 38% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell B | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Haverford A | George Washington A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| John Jay College | Penn B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B | Haverford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU B | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers A | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |