Examining “The Cauldron of What is America”: An Interview With Dread Scott

“No puede haber un Derek Chauvin de rodillas sobre la nuca de George Floyd sin esclavitud. Esa es la historia y la herencia de Estados Unidos.” Una entrevista con Dread Scott

“…TB: I read the interview you did with Renée Ater for Public Art Dialogue in 2021 14 quoting Michel-Rolph Trouillot's book Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 15 which refers to slavery in the United States as "a ghost, both the past and the living presence," and the difficulty of representing it. Your work responds to this difficulty and perfectly depicts this ghost that can be sensed in the U.S. flag, in the Constitution, but also in the functioning of the police force or of the economy, as you suggested.…”