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Zora Neal Hurston (1891 1960), folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance When artists
choose to embrace and use the Afro prefix, their usage of the prefix is not invalidated because of the failure of the art criticism
arena to see beyond current manifestos, nor is it invalidated by the critical arenas attempt to define new work through existing
paradigms. Creativity is at times suffocated by critical review, but critics should not be allowed unchallenged forums in which they
continue to create predicates for Afro- art, based on qualification to existing art movements. These are lazy, vapid attempts to
describe the work of African artists based on tangential and elemental similarities in the works and to whatever existing manifesto is
terms of comparing a spider and a butterfly. A spider indelibly changes an environment and the psychological action within it, in a
way that a butterfly does notwe know that for many people a spider will carry a set of transferred fears, misunderstandings and
misinformation about its nature, and these fears influence our perception of the spider. But the butterfly, our view of which is
unencumbered by such psychological pressures, is universally accepted as a beautiful entity to be embraced. This is how
historical writing excerpts by American black literati and the banner used in this essay have come from the anthology .