In the 1930’s, particularly in America, social realism artists began to place emphasis on the role of the creative artist as a means to cause social change. African American social realists increasingly began to call attention to the threat of both race prejudice and class inequalities and used their cultural work as social criticism, a means of installing race pride and amplifying interracial working-class condition improvements. By moving taboo subjects such as poverty, race, homelessness, joblessness and racial violence into the scope of appropriate subject material, social realism gave rise to new ideologies of cultural work that visual art and literature could
In the 1930’s, particularly in America, social realism artists began to place emphasis on the role of the creative artist as a means to cause social change. African American social realists increasingly began to call attention to the threat of both race prejudice and class inequalities and used their cultural work as social criticism, a means of installing race pride and amplifying interracial working-class condition improvements. By moving taboo subjects such as poverty, race, homelessness, joblessness and racial violence into the scope of appropriate subject material, social realism gave rise to new ideologies of cultural work that visual art and literature could