Making RaceMalvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial art" in the interwar years of the twentieth century. The term was widely used by critics and the public at the time, and was an unexamined, unquestioned category for the work of non whites (such as Johnson, an African American), non Westerners (such as Kuniyoshi, a Japanese born American), and ethnicized non