Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: As histories within art education expand to cover topics outside of the majoritarian narrative, historians need to take into consideration the ways in which their positionality influences their relationship with their historical subjects. This paper is a meditation on the experience of a White female researcher studying the life of Margaret Burroughs, a Black art education and institution-builder from Chicago. By focusing on positionality in both theoretical positionality and researcher positionality, a case is built for historians to interrogate the relationship between researcher and subject, even when living participants are not involved in the study.
DOI: 10.2458/jcrae.4797
Author: Debra M. Hardy
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4287891468