Seeing Blackly: Tina Campt’s A Black Gaze

A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See by Tina M. Campt, MIT Press, 2021;
232 pages, $29.95 hardcover.
The notion that Black art has been experiencing some kind of “moment”—as described, for example, in numerous published reflections on art trends in the tumultuous 2010s—has mutated into a condescending maxim. This “moment” is often referred to as an unprecedented groundswell of Black/African American cultural production, or, equally ahistorically, a renais