invisible and relegated to the margins
Does the first part of the following text say:
in white artists' paintings, the bodies of black people were represented as abject entities (black bodies were 1.absent and in margin or 2. displayed as a disgusting thing in the paintings)?
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The black body was rendered abject, both invisible and relegated to the margins, and all too visible and considered disgusting by the white imaginary, therefore narcissism had a political value in the work of black artists in the 1990s.