Whiteness, A Wayward Construction

Laguna Art Museum, March 23—July 6, 2003

University of Virginia Bayly Art Museum, October-December 23, 2004

A group exhibition exploring the identity politics of white culture in the United States. This exhibition approaches whiteness as being less about the color of skin and more about an ideology of power. This is the first museum exhibition to explore the cultural study of whiteness. All of the nearly 80 artworks selected were created between 1990 to the present. This limitation was set to be in accord with a particular development that occurs in the contemporary art world and academia in regard to theories of post-structuralism, post-colonial thought, and multiculturalism, from which the cultural study of whiteness arose in the 1990s.

Essays by Tyler Stallings, Ken Gonzales-Day, Amelia Jones, and David R. Roediger. 

Hardcover: 152 pages

Publisher: Laguna Art Museum and Fellows of Contemporary Art (March 2003)

ISBN: 0911291318

Dimensions: 7.5 x 9.8 inches

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