More than a black and white issue

Black Pulp!—a show opening this Tuesday, 19 January, at the Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut—brings together 90 years of art and print media that confront and subvert racist depictions and stereotypes of African Americans. “The pulp attitude is to take the tragic and painful points of history, like Jim Crow and the Vietnam War, and challenge them through biting humor, satire, and wit,” the exhibition’s co-curator, the artist a