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American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight (2024)

Richard Frishman
B. Brian Foster
Imani Perry (Foreward)

Bezel is the digital companion to my five published works: I Don't Like the Blues (2020), We Travel (2020), We Dance (2021), Ghosts of Segregation (2024), and We Travel (2026). Explore Capsules to learn more about the project, and Credits for a list of collaborators, media coverage, talks, and more.

Bezel is my digital portfolio. It gathers framing materials—work samples, photos, footage, and notes—around my five published works: I Don't Like the Blues (2020), We Travel (2020),  We Dance (2021), Ghosts of Segregation (2024), and We Make (2025).

Ghosts of Segregation began as a photo collection, by photographer Richard Frishman, who spent years documenting landscapes across the American South where histories of racial violence unfolded. Together we turned those images into a photo-essay collection that pairs his photographs with a series of reflective essays. The essays move through memory, place, monuments, and family history to explore what it means to live near the afterlives of racial violence. They move from the Mississippi Delta to university campuses, from family stories to public memorials, asking how the past persists in the present—not only in monuments and archives, but in the landscapes, communities, and everyday moments where history continues to make itself felt.

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