[Dara]

Nicole, I don’t think turning your nose up at white people who collect ‘mammy’ and ‘tar baby’-style stuff is the same as looking down on people who collect art that is not from their culture. That stuff isn’t African-American art, it’s European American ‘art,’ for lack of a better word, about African Americans, or rather their ideas about African Americans. It’s not appreciating someone else’s culture, it’s wallowing in the lower aspects of their own culture. I think the original question is more like, would you have a problem with white people or Asian people, etc. collecting contemporary African-American painters, or black American folk art, or for that matter being major rap fans. I think art is for reaching people, and if people respond to art from another culture, there’s nothing wrong with that, as long as they are respectful of the original context and intent.

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