Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, at the Brooklyn Museum

 Other works here encompass facets of the larger African-American experience. Among them are four screen prints that Lawrence made in the Seventies, late in his career, and that mine his favored theme of the Great Migration. One shows migrants casting ballots in the North, exercising the franchise in the friendly jumble of a polling station on election day. Two largeformat stills from a performance show artist Dread Scott subjecting himself to high-blast water drenching, evoking the tactic used to dispel protesters in the civil rights movement. A length of water hose appears in a sculptural piece by Theaster Gates titled In Case of Race Riot II.