Cross publishes article in Panorama

​Doctoral candidate Anne Cross recently published an article in Panorama, the online journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Entitled "'The Time Has Now Gone by When Things of This Nature Are to Be Hidden from the Public': Mediating Bodily and Archival Violence," the article describes her encounter with a portrait of Martha Ann Banks, a young African American woman abused by her former enslaver, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Drawing from her dissertation research, Cross offers insights into Banks' life and the production of her image, including how Banks' image was circulated and framed through its use as a wood engraving in Harper's Weekly. In addition, this article engages with questions about working within an archive of racial subjugation, the political and moral implications of attempting to recover the lives of the enslaved, and the ethics of circulating and studying images of racialized violence.