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Joshua I. Cohen

Joshua Cohen is assistant professor of art history at The City College of New York and the author of The "Black Art" Renaissance (University of California Press, 2020).

The politics of influence

Influence exhilarates. It also makes people nervous. Writers, artists, scholars, researchers—we all seem to want to be “influential.” Less often do we want to admit to being “influenced.”