Call For Papers
Blackness, White Liberalism, and Art
College Art Association Annual Conference session
Chicago, February 14–17, 2024
This panel will address the “soft racism” of white liberal artists who have inadequately tried to address white supremacy and anti-Black racism in their work. Whether in the guise of multiculturalism, color blindness, or particular strains of post-racialism, these artists have often perpetuated what cultural theorist Stuart Hall called “a kind of difference that doesn’t make a difference of any kind.” We seek papers that take up case studies of neo/liberal representations of race produced within the United States across media from the nineteenth century until today.
Chairs: Bridget R. Cooks, University of California, Irvine, and John Ott, James Madison University.
The session will convene in person in Chicago and the deadline for submissions is August 31, 2023. Submission Link:
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12755.html
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