Examining Whiteness in K-12 art education

What is it about?

This article examines how Whiteness and White supremacy continue to operate in K-12 art education with a focus on curriculum and the notion of intellect. I argue that examination of these areas as well as others can be an effective tool to make visible the ways Whiteness operates within the art education field. Making Whiteness visible in these ways can subsequently prompt antiracist interventions and actions to contest it.

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Why is it important?

Over the past few years, there has been an increased amount of art education scholarship that has focused on race, some of which has begun to examine Whiteness. However, many aspects of the art education field remain unexamined, allowing Whiteness to continue to operate invisibly, stealthily undermining our antiracist agenda.