Museums and Race: Language Primer# 1, on “White Privilege”

[We propose a paradigm] for how museums address their responsibility for fair and inclusive staffing, collections, and interpretation, and equality of access to their resources. This paradigm will examine a vocabulary and a set of theories not usually found in current museum discourse: Oppression: identifying the complex and too often unacknowledged ways in which systemic…

Charleston: The Cultural Landscape

  The coverage of the Charleston Massacre, in which nine African American parishioners were gunned down during Bible study by a white man on June 17,2015, 슠has been notable for its references to the cultural landscape of the killings. 슠Here a variety of reporters for the Washington Post and the New York Times슠describe Charleston in…