Race Making: Opening Reception and Conversation with the Curator
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Race Making: Opening Reception and Conversation with the Curator

Explore 19th-c. ad trade cards & Chinese identity in "Race Making". Join us Sat. for the reception + curator talk with Lenore Metrick-Chen!

By CAMOC | Chinese American Museum of Chicago

Date and time

Saturday, May 3 · 2 - 4pm CDT

Location

Chinese American Museum of Chicago

238 West 23rd Street Chicago, IL 60616

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  • Event lasts 2 hours

“Race Making: American Advertising Trade Cards and Chinese Identity”

Join us this Saturday for the reception of Race Making and a chance to meet the curator, Lenore Metrick-Chen.

This exhibition explores how the racial category “Chinese“ was socially constructed and redefined in 19th-century America, leading the way to the images and stereotypes that persist in framing the perception of Asian Americans today.

Through curated selections of these American Advertising trade cards, the precursor to our postcards, Race Making offers a unique lens into how Chinese identity was imagined by Americans during a time of shifting social values, technological change, and national anxieties.

Curated by Lenore Metrick-Chen (@), the Education Director and Curator at the Fort Des Moines Museum in Des Moines, IA., and an emeritus professor of Art and Cultural History at Drake University. Through teaching, writing, and curation, she explores art as a material language for memory and social change, especially in relation to race, immigration, and ethnicity.

Opening Reception: May 3, 2:00–4:00 PM | Ruth & Samuel Moy Gallery, FL1

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CAMOC | Chinese American Museum of Chicago

Chicago’s Chinatown is a site of rich historical importance. CAMOC's vision is to not only invite visitors to discover it but also to create a home for Chicagoans to gather, support, and create an expansive and evolving narrative of the Chinese American story.

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