Thesis
Combating racial bias in art museums
Master of Arts (M.A.), Drexel University
Jun 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/D8637Z
Abstract
American art museum collections and exhibitions are powerful cultural instruments. These institutions have particular significance for Black Americans because of the longstanding marginalization or outright exclusion of Black art in most mainstream museums. In this thesis I examine current efforts to correct this history of marginalization. The thesis consists of a short historical overview and the transcripts of interviews conducted with four individuals from four different generations who are deeply involved in the contemporary Black arts community and who have successfully deployed tactics to combat racial bias in American art museums. The interviewees are collector E. T. Williams Jr.; artist and gallerist Daniel Simmons Jr.; auction house employee Nigel Freeman and curator Noah Smalls.
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- Title
- Combating racial bias in art museums
- Creators
- LaKeia D. Carter - DU
- Contributors
- Neville Vakharia (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vi, 59 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Arts Administration; Arts and Entertainment Enterprise; Drexel University; Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 8085; 991014632068004721