Spatial Realization: Understanding Black Cultural Engagement in Context of Space and Whiteness

This paper explores the ways in which Black people interact with their culture in the context of white institutional space as approached by the art installation titled Spatial Realization. By establishing a space that invites engagement with Black culture contextualized within a white institution and directly juxtaposed by symbols of racialized oppression, the exhibit challenges its audience to confront the issue of conflict that is embedded even in generalized cultural interactions we tend to consider as only supplemental to our understanding of self. Ultimately, it asks the question of whether or not there is a possible reality where Black people can engage with Black culture without an inherent conflict with whiteness and what implications does that possibility bear in terms of our understanding of personal, cultural identity.

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

Texas State University

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Robertson, Tafari

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Valencia-García, Louie Dean

• Black
• African-American
• culture
• space
• whiteness
• institution
• cultural context

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/7265

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/7265