Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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“SAMO© as an Escape Clause”: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Engagement with a Commodified American Africanism Journal of American Studies Volume 45, Issue 2 (May 2011) DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810001738 Laurie A. Rodrigues Department of English University of Rhode Island Heir to the racist configuration of the American art exchange and the delimiting appraisals of blackness in the American mainstream…