‘When Did You Discover You Are African?’ MoAD and the universal, diasporic subject

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Notes

¹Although MoAD has three floors, one and a half of which are devoted to rotating exhibitions, I will restrict my analysis in this section to the permanent content on the ground floor and half of the second floor (U.K. first floor: ed), as these unchanging materials provide the consistent context through which the rotating exhibitions can be understood.

²This level of close inspection (i.e. including captions) is available online at <www. moadsf.org>

³The panoptic dimensions of this massive composite image warrant an essay of their own.

⁴Of course, such an explanation would seem to normalize MoAD's white spectators at the expense of people of recent African descent.