Ghetto Child

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Original Title: Ghetto Child
Date: 1968
Creator: Joseph Randolph See all items with this value
Description: Randolph’s painting shows a mother in an African dress wearing her child on her back with a chitenge. The wall is graffitied with words like pig, power, and love, and an image of a Black power fist. The work contrasts the African aesthetic of the figures with the African-American political graffiti, expressing an idea of global Blackness.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; Family See all items with this value; HBCU student work See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Afrocentrism; Black art; Domestic labor; Fashion; Motherhood; Womanism
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Measurements: 20 3/4 in x 30 3/4 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc199
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0108
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Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; Texas Southern University Collections; University Museum at Texas Southern Permanent Collection