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Robert Delaunay, Eiffel Tower, c. 1924.
Oil on canvas, 161.6 cm x 96.8 cm.
Saint Louis Art Museum.

Ludwig Meidner, Burning City, c.1913
Oil on canvas, 68.4 cm x 80.5 cm.
Saint Louis Art Museum

Rea, Betty-Bell. Little Black Sambo. Akron: Saalfield Pub, (1938). Print. This version of Sambo by Betty Bell Rea (1938) is among the youngest portrayals of Sambo. Unlike a usualpicaninnycaricature, he is not depicted as being overgrown or older…

This image is from one of the later re-illustrated versions of Sambo. Printed in 1908, the illustrator used Helen Bannerman’s original story with new images for Sambo, which are decidedly more caricatured and therefore more racist than the…

Helen Bannerman wrote The Story of Little Black Sambo (1898) to entertain her children while they were living in India. The story has been controversial primarily because of its racist illustrations, which represent a…

UnlikeSounder, Cooley Highdepicts black adolescence as urban and untamed, addressing a group of African American high school students living near the north side of Chicago in a predominately African American neighborhood. The material displays a…

From this promotional material, the viewer receives a preview of the different types of relationships the film will elaborate upon, none of which include family. The viewer sees Cochise in a letterman’s jacket, with young women that he appears…

The images in this final piece of promotional material show boys attempting to be men in the only way they know how, by acquiring women and staying loyal to people outside of the home. Unlike in Sounder, the characters in Cooley High perform…

In this promotional material, Nathan Lee and his son depict the present, future, and the consistency of poverty and harsh conditions affecting a black farming family in the rural South. As an exhibition of life after the abolition of slavery, the…

Family relationships are prevalent withinSounder. The film shows white supremacy as having explicit social and economic consequences for the Morgan family. This lobby card shows David Lee giving his father the cake baked by his mother. David is…