The ACRAH/CAA2025 panel will be Critical Race Art History Roundtable: Doing the Work
The session will be in-person at the New York Hilton Midtown – 2nd Floor – Nassau West on February 14, 2025 at 2:30pm EST.
The ACRAH Business Meeting will also be held in the same room February 14, 2025 at 1:00pm EST.
Session Abstract:
What does it mean to do critical race art history? This session brings together scholars in a conversation about how a critical race art history approach can manifest in our work. Having proposed this line of inquiry twenty-five years ago, we want to reflect on the nature of the concept and how the field has evolved. What are the goals of critical race art history, and what are its methodologies and theoretical grounds? What are the conceptual parameters of this lens on art history–what does it mean to center an understanding that race structures how we see and shapes our reception of art? What tools and methods do we employ to make the operations of race visible? How do we move from American identity politics –that emphasizes a white/non-white binary and focuses on the identification of negative racial tropes and artistic rebuttals to the harm of such imagery–to a comprehensive unpacking of the systemic racialization in art? What do we gain when we foreground how race informs the construction of the visual cultures that we inhabit? How do the insights of critical race art history become integrated into art history at large?
Participants:
Kymberly Pinder, Yale University
Pinder is Professor of Art and History of Art and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. She is the editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Reading in Race and Art History (Routledge, 2002).
Tatiana Flores, University of Virginia
Flores is the Edgar Shannon Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor in Art History at the University of Virginia. She is an editor of The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (2023).
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard University
Hutchison is the Tow Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. She is the author of The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915 (Duke University Press, 2009).
Lily Cho, York University
Cho is Associate Professor of English at York University. She is the author of Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021).
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