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- Title
EXPLORING SOUL OF A NATION: DISORIENTING DILEMMAS OF "GOOD WHITE WOMEN".
- Authors
Voelkel, Micki; Henehan, Shelli
- Abstract
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power is an exhibition of American Black artists from the 1960s through 1980s. Originally developed by the Tate Modern in London, the exhibition travelled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, in early 2018. When we visited the exhibition, we intended to study how women were represented. Instead, we found the experience disturbing and disorienting. We were taken aback by the way the artists incorporated and owned images that we associated with racism, slavery, and segregation. As White, middle-class women from the American South, we felt ill-equipped to formulate an opinion or even to identify the emotions we experienced. The mutual cognitive dissonance we experienced caused us to re-evaluate our ideas and biases related to race. This essay describes our transformative learning in facing and confronting our White privilege and rethinking our attitudes and perceptions of race.
- Subjects
BENTONVILLE (Ark.); WHITE women; TRAVELING exhibitions; BLACK artists; COGNITIVE dissonance; TATE Modern (Gallery); CRYSTAL Bridges Museum of American Art; TRANSFORMATIVE learning; WHITE privilege
- Publication
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0835-4944
- Publication type
Article