And are we upset? I'll speak for myself; it's not a question. Of course not. Which is a good thing, because the concept of race in America - the fraught fictions of whiteness and blackness - is not going away soon. It is still deep in our system. Whether it is or isn't in our blood, it's in our laws, our behavior, our institutions, our sensibilities, our dreams.
It's also in our art, which, at its contrarian and ambiguous best, is always on the job, probing, resisting, questioning and traveling miles ahead down the road.
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