Thin as Our Skin: Racism Then
Thin as Our Skin: Racism Now
Robin Dintiman
(MFA 1983)
Thin as Our Skin: Racism Then
Thin as Our Skin: Racism Then (home grown leather, truck latch) is my response to the horrors of being Black in Texas while I was growing up. While I was a white Northerner, my family had close association with a Black family. Anna Lee Allen would let me to come play at her farm with her children and grandchildren; she strictly forbade her kids coming to our house. Texas had lynching. Anna Lee knew that if we got too friendly there might be ugly consequences for her family. Our family had correspondence with her until I was in middle school back in the North.
Thin as Our Skin: Racism Now
This work is in response to the slaying of George Floyd, in June 2020,
That all police see is the color of a Black man's skin and assume malcontent.
Assume many things negative, so much so that they are reduced to skin color as you see here.
No soul, no body, no family, son or daughter, no child, no Mom or Dad, no NOT anything, just dead.
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