Rashid Johnson (b. 1977)

“The work of Rashid Johnson, inspired by the history of African-American intellectual movements–from the Harlem Renaissance to the Back-to-Africa movement–develops a lexicon that stands in opposition to escapist utopianism… Reworking and ‘miscegenating’ materials and concepts that define the idea of blackness…” (B. Godsill, “The Long Distance Runner,” Mousse, Summer 2010, p. 182).