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Lenore Metrick-Chen

Lenore Metrick-Chen is an art and cultural historian and curator at Drake University. She explores visual art’s agency in social change, in issues of race, feminism, and contested public space. Her book 'Collecting Objects and Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and 19th C American Visual Culture' (SUNY Press, 2012) speaks of the effect of the United States Exclusion laws on perceptions of Chinese people and Chinese objects in 19th-century US. Her edited volume 'Creating Cultural Memory: Architecture, Monuments and Other Ephemera' is upcoming from SUNY Press.

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How Trump Trades on Nostalgia for a Mythic White America

by Lenore Metrick-Chen August 17, 2016May 23, 2022

Racist sentiments often coexist with a mythologized past of a pure America inhabited only by white Christian people.

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Seeing with the Body at a Virtual-Reality Art Show

by Lenore Metrick-Chen May 11, 2016May 10, 2016

In the largely uncharted technology of virtual reality, artists must invent the medium as they engage with it.

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We’ve Always Been Here: A Portrait of the US by Two Black Artists

by Lenore Metrick-Chen August 12, 2015August 16, 2015

DES MOINES, Iowa — Divisions of race, class, and place haunt aspirations for equality and justice in the US.

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