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Elizabeth Catlett’s Steadfast Radicalism

… That It Implies. The African-American artist was born in … honoring the work of Black American sharecroppers while drawing … artist enacted within the Black American and Mexican tradition, writing … wherein the struggles of Black Americans were understood as …

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