ERIC Number: EJ1453274
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0039-3541
EISSN: EISSN-2325-8039
Negated Identities in Dominican Art Education
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, v65 n4 p421-436 2024
Drawing from decolonial theories, I explore the history of art education in the Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century. I examine how racial hierarchies were activated in art classes in school through the romanticization of the countryside and the mystification of children's material culture. A distorted use of rural imagery served to advance the elite's narrative of White Dominican identity and to normalize a racial imaginary that negated the country's African heritage. I analyze how national and global discourses that coupled modernity with Whiteness encouraged aesthetic preferences that permeated children's visual culture and national art. I contend that, because children's art and play conjure images of innocence, the exhibition of children's material culture was utilized to naturalize the absence of a Black heritage. This article builds on recent scholarship that underscores the need to diversify art education histories.
Descriptors: Self Concept, Art Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Racial Factors, Social Class, Visual Aids, Aesthetics, Political Influences, Social Influences, Art History, Nationalism, Racism
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Dominican Republic
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