Black is Black Ain't Author:Huey Copeland, Darby English, Greg Foster-Rice, Amy M. Mooney, Kimberly N. Pinder, Krista Thompson, Hamza Walker, Kenneth W. Warren Taking its title from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, exhibition Black Is, Black Ain't (April 20 ? June 8, 2008) explored a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained. Curated by the Renaissance Society's Associate Curator and Educatio... more »n Director Hamza Walker, the exhibition brought together works by twenty-seven black and non-black artists whose work collectively examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called "blackness" is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant. The publication features essays by Huey Copeland, Darby English, Greg Foster-Rice, Amy M. Mooney, Kymberly N. Pinder, Krista Thompson, Hamza Walker, and Kenneth Warrren.« less