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    7. The Difficulties of Naming White Things

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Chambers,Eddie (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Small Axe
    Journal Title Details:
    16(2) : 186-197
    Notes:
    "Explores why certain subjects or disciplines must, apparently, have their content racially signified by prefixes, such as African American art, African diaspora art, and so on, while supposedly more elevated disciplines within art history are allowed to exist in largely racially unfettered contexts, or contexts in which the racial dimension is coded, presumed, and understood. For example, how is it that the study of American art of the nineteenth or twentieth century can be taught with no reference whatsoever to ethnic diversity? Such pathologies presuppose the marginality of black artists. Similarly, must this marginality be attended to only by the provision of separate faculty and separate curricula that have the study of black artists at their core?" --The Author

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