Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the SouthRomare Bearden (19111988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white mob harassed his family in the 1910s. His family story is a compelling, complicated saga of Black middle class achievement in the face of relentless waves of