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" It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. "
Hilton Als
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" Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals. "
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