"If you stop laughing, you are dead."
Passionate Irreverence: The Cultural Politics of Identity, Coco Fusco
On the Matter of Whiteness, Richard Dyer
Alters of Sacrifice: Remembering Basquiat, bell hooks. Follow the link to: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n6_v81/ai_13917784/print
In Search of the "Inauthentic" Disturbing Signs in Contemporary Native American Art, Jean Fischer
Picture a Coalition, Gregg Bordowitz
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Lisa Nochlin. Follow link to: http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ews410/nogreatwomen.html
And watch:
The Guerilla Girls at the Feminist Future Symposium, MoMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHVBZh5HBgc
Further Reading:
What's White...? Thelma Goldin
Braciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art, Kym Pinder
Things are Queer, Jonathan Weinberg
and many more, just ask erica...
Please see Erica for copies of the readings if you need (I had to delete them off our website memory).