@article{437977,
      recid = {437977},
      author = {Bowles, John Parish,},
      title = {Adrian Piper race, gender, and embodiment / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Duke University Press,},
      address = {Durham [NC] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv,  335 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically  dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the  streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored  sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her  Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular  representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class; they  challenged viewers to accept personal responsibility for  xenophobia and discrimination and the conditions that  allowed them to persist. Piper's work confronts viewers and  forces them to reconsider assumptions about the social  construction of identity. Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and  Embodiment is an in-depth analysis of this pioneering  artist's work, illustrated with more than ninety images,  including twenty-one in color.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437977},
}