Critical Race Art History and the Archive
Session will present: VirtuallyAffiliated Society or Committee Name: Association for Critical Race Art History
In Subject to Display (2009), Jennifer A. González asserts that “the collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present.“ In this session, contemporary archivists’ discuss their approaches to telling the narratives of racial identification and racialization—past and present. What has been collected and how has that material been interpreted? What questions do they bring to institutional systems of classification? How do they create space and cede power so that marginalized communities can access resources that support their created and managed archives? In what ways have the concerns of the humanities—analysis, interpretation, argumentation—been mainstreamed into digital humanities practice in the scope of critical race art history?
Field(s) of Study:
Topics: Race/Ethnicity
Field: Art History
Theory / Practice: Library and Archival Studies
Business of Art: Art Librarianship
Topics: Digital Humanities
Chairs:
Camara D. Holloway, Association for Critical Race Art History
and
Jacqueline Francis, California College of the Arts
Abstract Submissions Closed