Awards for Green Book and The New Negro merely assuage white guilt – these are not great works of art | Michael Henry Adams

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Awards for Green Book and The New Negro merely assuage white guilt – these are not great works of art | Michael Henry Adams
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The best picture Oscar and the Pulitzer for biography have been bestowed on problematic and inferior works on race

Art highlighting the marginalized, blacks, gays and others, is more fashionable than ever. For the gatekeepers of culture, however, it is not authenticity but stories that celebrate a superficial idea of progressiveness which exert the greatest appeal. Narratives exhibiting how “woke” we are resonate most. As long as a work captures how accepting whites are of blacks, how understanding straights are when encountering queerness, success is assured.

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