Does Black Rub Off?

Does Black Rub Off?, oil paint on linen canvas with African fabric border, 90″ × 56″, 1999. Collection of the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.

In this piece we see a woman with a white upper body, brown legs, black-face and blonde hair. This piece speaks to white women’s negligence to see Black women as women, worthy of equality and and inclusion into what they’re fighting for as feminists. Amos was hesitant to join femenist movements because of the tint white women put on that doesn’t include Black women. The Black women’s fight is in civil rights and racial inequality movements. However, this is where intersectionality comes into play. Among Black men, Black women have a fight of their own. Among white women, Black women have a fight of their own. Among white men, Black women have 2 fights.