5-7 pages, double-spaced, 1-inch margins. Use Chicago Manual of Style for citations. Writing should be clear, direct, polished. No generalities, no fluff. Look up the artist Rene Cox’s work, “Yo Mama’s Last Supper” and the controversy surrounding it. Without commenting on whether the art is

“good” or not, write your paper assessing the dynamics of this painting as both a relationship to the biblical past, a relationship to other

interpretations of the biblical past, and as a contemporary cultural controversy involving the Bible

. How do race, gender, and sexuality converge in this art piece, and the controversy itself?

What is this piece about potentially – both/either for Cox and for those who maligned it? How does Cox

speak about this work and its meaning, versus how it was received?

Why was her embodiment of this figure – Jesus – controversial, and how might it relate to/diverge from other cross-temporal and cross-racial identifications with biblical figures?