Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0003-3520-5404
Abstract
In this paper, the authors discuss how conversations on racial embodiment can be dialogic praxis that builds solidarity and moves towards anti-racist pedagogy. For the conversations, the authors met via videoconference on several occasions to discuss their experiences on the topic of racialized embodiment from their varied sociocultural perspectives and considered implications for visual art teaching, learning, and research. They recorded the audio and video of these conversations and collaged portions of the transcripts of these talks together to present a single curated conversation that serves as primary content for this paper. The decision to “speak” this article into existence is inspired by the work of Myles Horton and Paulo Freire (1990) in the conversation-turned-book We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Each author of this article embodies a unique and complex sociocultural standpoint and each is committed to the collective as a force for social transformation through and within art education. Through conversation, the authors developed the concept of pursuance, and through emergent themes in the conversation, fleshed out what they call the roots of pursuance. These roots hover in and out of constructed notions of the individual and the collective as they embody the complexities of movement towards anti-racist pedagogy in art education.
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