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  • Did Sweden's Racist Cake-Cutting Scandal Accomplish Anything? [Reader Forum]

    Or was it another case of exploitative politics packaged in shock-value art? Colorlines readers discuss.
    Channing Kennedy Apr 23, 2012 8:43AM EDT

    Swedish Culture Minister in Cake Stunt: 'Art Must Be Allowed to Provoke'

    A Swedish organization promoting the rights of people of African origin on Tuesday called for the minister to resign for participating in a “tasteless, racist spectacle” that’s made international headlines
    Jorge Rivas Apr 19, 2012 11:15AM EDT

    Racist Cake-Cutting Scandal: Afro-Swedes Call for Action, Artist Speaks

    Sweden’s culture minister has faced calls to resign after she was filmed cutting into a cake resembling an African woman as part of an art piece on female genital mutilation.
    Jorge Rivas Apr 18, 2012 11:01AM EDT

    Swedish Culture Minister Caught in Racist Cake-Cutting Scandal

    On Sunday the Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth began cutting a large cake shaped like a black woman to as part of an art installation.
    Jorge Rivas Apr 17, 2012 1:00PM EDT

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