UCI professor Bridget Cooks speaks to the need for comprehensive, widespread change
Department: Art History
Post Date: August 31, 2020News Details
UCI Podcast August 19, 2020: The cultural significance of visual representation
“Addressing the optics of racism through visual images and brands is something corporations can do to appear engaged in contemporary politics, and removing these characters from these products is a start. But I think what’s even more important than that is the larger issue of Black equality and the corporations’ relationships to Black lives socially, politically, and economically,” says Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor of African American studies and art history at UCI.