The ACRAH/CAA2024 session will be Critical Race Art History and the Archive.
The panel will be held on Zoom on Thursday, February 15th, at 2:30pm CST.
If you are attending the conference in person at the Hilton Chicago, you have the option to view the session in the Marquette Room on the 3rd floor.
Session Abstract
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?
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Recorded portions of the session will be available to conference registrants until April 17, 2024.
Register for CAA2024: https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/conference2024/registration
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