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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family (Paperback)
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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family (Paperback)
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Now available in a paperback edition, LaToya Ruby Frazier's
award-winning first book, The Notion of Family, offers an incisive
exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in
America's small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock,
Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact of that decline on
the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal
and truly political-an intervention in the histories and narratives
of the region. Frazier has compellingly set her story of three
generations-her Grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself-against
larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work
documents her own struggles and interactions with family and the
expectations of community, and includes the documentation of the
demise of Braddock's only hospital, reinforcing the idea that the
history of a place is frequently written on the body as well as the
landscape. With The Notion of Family, Frazier knowingly
acknowledges and expands upon the traditions of classic
black-and-white documentary photography, enlisting the
participation of her family, and her mother in particular. In the
creation of these collaborative works, Frazier reinforces the idea
of art and image-making as a transformative act, a means of
resetting traditional power dynamics and narratives-both those of
her family and of the community at large.
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