“This Is America”: the Jim Crow era and American Civil War's sites of memory in Hiro Murai's visual art
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This is America, sites of memory, Jim CrowAbstract
Distinctive reference to the period following the American Civil War, the Jim Crow character, originally played by a white caricatured man – in addition to his face painted in black and lips in red – was the inspiration to nominate the group of segregation laws that ruled in southern United States of America between the end of Reconstruction’s Era and the beginning of the civil rights movement. These and other symbolic pieces of the scenario that permeates the history of north American racial inequality are presented in "This Is America," a music video produced and starred by Donald Glover and directed by Hiro Murai, carrying the symbolism of a moral message. This work’s proposal is to achieve a theoretical reflection on the ability that sites of memories inherent rivalries have to reach diversified levels, also radiating in the form of influence towards the field of visual arts.
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