You Became a Scientific Profile

Title: You Became a Scientific Profile
Rights: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Carrie Mae Weems. Educational Fair Use.
Creator: Weems, Carrie Mae (1953 -)
Date: 1995 C.E.
Description: This work was made in reference to how white America saw black people as inferior and would view black people as test subjects. The work shows a topless black woman standing at a side view. The image is colored red and there is text in gray saying, “You became a scientific profile.”
Format: Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass. 23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm).
Language: English
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art.
Contributor: Dylan Harris
Identifier: Museum of Modern Art. 70.1997.2.
Subject: Black people; African American; Black women; Red; Side profile; Racism.
Source: Jpg file. Museum of Modern Art. 11/6/2021.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/91838?classifications=any&date_begin=Pre-1850&date_end=2021&direction=fwd&page=6&q=Black+artists&utf8=%E2%9C%93&with_images=1; You Became a Scientific Profile