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With great economy and force, Simpson conveys the conditions of many black women as double targets of racism and sexism. [...] [T]he poses can be read as defensive or defiant or both, and the markings of 'skin' and 'sex' are underscored in a way that seems to strengthen rather than to debilitate the woman picture.
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin Buchloh (2004) Art since 1990, New York: Thames & Hudson, p. 641
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