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Artist Theaster Gates on creating empowering interracial narratives
Anyone who’s seen Douglas Sirk’s 1959 masterwork melodrama Imitation of Life will recall a scene that epitomises the emotional pain and struggles faced by mixed-race Americans in the segregated, pre-Civil Rights era. Sarah Jane, a New York teenager who “ …