While reflecting upon Citizen, I wanted to come back to the cover image that we talked about on the first day of class—David Hammons’ In the Hood. The severed hood “evokes lynchings” and represents the reality of being black (“David Hammon Makes a Hood Stand for a Race—and Racism”). At the same time, the fact that we regard this single image as a representation of “all the black bodies in this country” is also “racism,” because this view does not acknowledge the varied, difficult experiences faced by a huge diversity of individuals. Citizen was a reflection of both the reality of racism that others cannot even imagine as well as the combination of a huge number of perspectives, experiences, and stories. Citizen ends with Joseph Mallord William Turner’s The Slave Ship, which depicts the horrors black people have faced and face today. There’s also a Detail of Fish Attacking Slave from the same painting, representing the millions of slaves who died on slave ships whose voices have been forgotten.