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Analysis: The Marvelous Sugar Baby

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“A Subtlety or The Marvelous Sugar Baby” by Kara Walker is her tongue and cheek satirical homage of a sugar-coated half “mammy” half sphinx image constructed in the Domino Sugar Refining Plant in Brooklyn. “Sugar baby” was a massive sculptured that had a height of 75 feet long and 35 feet tall. Walker wanted to show how the wealthy and powerful Dutch West Indies, Winston Salem Tobacco, and other companies with European ties in the western hemisphere, “were built on the forced labor of the un/underpaid and overworked artisans (the enslaved people of the African Diaspora)”. These workers blood, sweat and most times tears refined the sweet tastes from the cane fields, to the kitchens of the slave masters. “The Marvelous Sugar Baby” explored the

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