"Othering"
Huie, Wing Young. Still Life. Black Memorabilia. 2014. https://www.wingyounghuie.com/p988258601. Accessed: September 21, 2018. This is an image by Wing Young Huie. It is one of the many images contained in his Still Life set of photographs. The author had this photograph under a sub-section known as Black Memorabilia. The image was taken within the years leading up to its publishing in 2014 and there is no place of publication included on the author's website. When examining this image from a denotative point of view, the surface level characteristics include a cloth doll wearing a dress with an apron and a rag on her head. The doll appears to be an African American female and its owner has it placed next to the windowsill on a kitchen counter. From a connotative examination standpoint, we can look further into the origins of a doll such as this one. The doll can be seen as a symbol for the typical role that an African American woman played back in the slavery and post-s...