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Poster -WHITE Gold
This collage happened from intuition—my own inner processing as a Black person and a deeper dive into Black history.
Sugar, slavery, and colonization were tightly bound together. Across the Americas, including Puerto Rico—which later became an unincorporated territory of the United States—enslaved Africans were forced to cut and process sugarcane. Sugar—once called “white gold”—helped drive the trade routes that moved goods, wealth, and human beings across the Atlantic.
Even after slavery ended, exploitation didn’t stop; it simply changed form. By the early 1900s, under U.S. rule, the American Sugar Refining Company set up operations in Puerto Rico. That same company, built on oppression, now sits in our kitchen pantries under a different name. It sweetens Kool‑Aid and everyday foods. You take a guess.
In this piece, the African head placed on the body of a white man in refined attire represents a reversal of power and the imagined end of colonial rule. The background points back to sugar’s long, unsavory history and the insidious ways that power works.
Artwork Title: WHITE Gold
Medium: Digital Collage
© Tamiko Greene. Artworks cannot be reproduced and distributed without permission.
