The Art of Negative Stereotyping: Reframing Blackness in Katrina Andry’s The Unfit Mommy and Her Spawn Will Wreck Your Comfortable Suburban Existence (2010) and It’s About Hard Work, Not Crippling Handout for the Poor (2017)

• Published in: Surveillance & society Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 221 - 226
• Main Author: Koellner, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kingston Surveillance Studies Network 01.01.2022
• Subjects: African art; Black people; Colonialism; Community; Complicity; Contemporary art; Gender identity; History; Minority groups; Oppression; Race; Racial identity; Racial stereotypes; Racism; Research subjects; Sexism; Socioeconomic factors; Stereotypes; Surveillance; Theater; Young adults

Koellner examines the works of New Orleans-based printmaker Katrina Andry. Andry reflects upon the hidden rheroric and logic used in communities to control subjects that are considered out-of-place, disobedient, or "unfitting." Instead of centering surveillance technologies within her crea...