ARTH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sander Gilman, Pseudoscience, Identity Politics
22 Feb 2017
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A method that is not addressed in the textbook (reading on mycourses), art history is intersectional in the way it uses other subjects. It is written by a lawyer, writers from the legal context related specifically to violence to women of colour. The black female subject discussed as the subject in paintings and as the artist. In the 60s-70s african-american women activists confronted the puzzle of how their needs simply fell through the cracks of anti-racist social movements. Intersectionality: cannot consider identity markers alone, gender, race etc. all intersect in our view of others. Black women discuss how they were simultaneously black and women so their representation by white women was not good enough for their lived experiences as women of colour. Patricia hill collins and sirma bilge on intersectionality. Scholars who care about intersectionality have translated it into a method of art history. Not just race but the overlap of gender, race, sexual orientation etc.
