Monday, March 2, 2009

If You Don't Know Me By Now

I am totally fascinated by visual artist Faith Ringgold's Racialquestions.com a "conceptual study on race and color in America."

Ms. Ringgold is interested in finding out:

"what a person would feel, think and do if their racial identity was suddenly changed. In other words what would it be like to Wake up Black in America (if you were white) or, what would it be like to Wake up White in America (if you were a person of color)?"

Racialquestions.com presents two online questionnaires:

Questionnaire A is for white people.

Questionnaire B is for all people of color.

Other people's answers are also available on the artist's website.

Meta-text: Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid by Jonathan Kozol (Harper's Magazine September, 2005)

The image is Norman Rockwell's.

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