Not Your Watermelon: Resistance & Recovery in American Art

As part of the University of Illinois Chicago's (UIC) Art History Department Colloquium, Dr. Shana Klein, author of "The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion," delivers a talk on the legacy of representations of watermelons in American art. Delving into the racialized representations of the fruit, she ends by connecting them to depictions of food in Thanksgiving.