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Stoic Indulgence, Gratuitous Restraint: White Feelings and Campus Art

Authors :
Stabler, Albert
Source :
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education. 2023 64(2):198-218.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

The 2010s saw a revival of reactionary politics on college campuses, which now appear to have paved the way for contemporary right-wing culture-war talking points regarding K-12 education. Revanchist attitudes around race, as well as gender and sexuality, can be linked to White Americans' affective attachments to ideas of historical entitlement, which can be seen both in campus responses to university art programming and in acts of student vandalism. I describe a campus gallery exhibition I organized in 2016 around the theme of White affect, and I make connections between expressions of rage, anguish, and reasonableness on the part of White people within White-dominated institutions of art and education, before considering what possibilities and difficulties may exist for leading substantive classroom discussions and projects that engage explicitly with race generally, and Whiteness in particular.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0039-3541 and 2325-8039
Volume :
64
Issue :
2
Database :
ERIC
Journal :
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
EJ1389698
Document Type :
Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/00393541.2023.2180257