A Visual Inquiry into the Abolition of Whiteness
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https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.6212Keywords:
arts-based educational research, critical whiteness studies, white supremacyAbstract
The purpose of this study was to make sense of how whiteness is constructed and the possibilities of deconstruction. To do this, I pursued arts-based educational research (ABER) methods as a means of creating, entangling myself with, and understanding the data. Through this art-as-research method (Wang et al., 2017), I interrogated what I could learn about whiteness and the possibility of abolishing it through the construction and deconstruction of entanglements made of string. This means of researching whiteness is not one that is universal since art, like everything, is weighted by our racial histories (Kraehe, 2020). However, whiteness leaves permanent marks and makes a severe imprint upon our educational system that could perhaps be better understood through ABER. Ultimately, I turned towards the possibilities found within Afrofuturist art.
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