to the formulation of these social and cultural restrictions and limitations imposed upon the descendants of former slaves. Combinations of race and gender) are concretized in visual imagery in fine art, illustration, material culture, photography, performance and practices of human display in natural history museums, zoos, and world's fairs. Dark Designs and Visual Culture Overview Dark Designs and Visual Culture, published in 2004, is a collection containing more than fifty articles that Michele Wallace wrote over the previous 15 years, including some of her most notable pieces as well as interviews conducted about her work. Dark Designs and Visual Culture charts the development of a black feminist consciousness and brings the scope of Wallace's career into focus. Wallace begins the collection with a reflection of her life and career through essays and articles focused on popular culture, as well as literary theory, and issues in black visual culture ranging from the historical tragedy of the Hottentot Venus, an African woman displayed as a curiosity in 19th-century Europe, to films that sexualize the black body—such as The Watermelon Woman (1996), Gone with the Wind (1939), and Paris Is Burning (1990). Wallace goes on to discuss life growing up in Harlem, her relationship with her mother Faith Ringgold, and how she dealt with the media attention and criticism she received for her work in Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. Awards and fellowships "Modernism, Postmodernism and The Problem of The Visual in Afro-American Culture," PSC-CUNY Creative Incentive Award, University Committee on Research, City University of New York (1991) "The Problem of The Visual in Afro-American Film," Eisner Fellowship, City College of New York (1991) Artists' Fellowship: Nonfiction Literature, New York Foundation for the Arts (1991) "The Problem of The Visual in African-American Film," Eisner Fellowship, City College of New York (1993) The Blanche, Edith and Irving Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies at Douglass College, Rutgers University (1996–1997) Lifetime Achievement Award of Journalism Alumni, City College of New York (2008) Select bibliography Books Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (1979), Faith Ringgold: Twenty Years of Painting, Sculpture and Performances (ed. 1984) Invisibility Blues: From Pop To Theory (1990), Black Popular Culture, with Gina Dent (1993), Passing, Lynching and Jim Crow: A Genealogy of Race and Gender in U.S. Visual Culture, 1895–1929 (1999) Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2004), Declaration of Independence, Fifty Years of Art by Faith