Dipti Desai
Biographic Data
| ID | 6209619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dipti Desai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dipti |
| FAMILY NAME | Desai |
| SIGNATURE | DESAI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
There Was So Much Silence Growing Up
This essay explores the specific artworks of Asian American artists Tomie Arai and Flo Oy Wong as complex articulations between culture, identity, history, and memory. Based on oral history interviews that were integral parts of their artistic processes, Arai and Wong created works that explored the family histories and memories of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans living in New York City’s Chinatown and California. Their artworks open up a sp…
Response to The Orders of Cultural Production by Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández
A response to Gaztambide-Fernández's Keynote address
University of the Unknown
Unframing Immigration
This article uses the lens of contemporary visual art as a counternarrative to explore the racialization of immigration in the United States and its relationship to education. Drawing on critical race theory, I argue that today several artists use their artistic practice to intervene strategically in the immigration debates. These artistic interventions are pedagogical because they open spaces for students to address the topic of immigration in b…
Imagining Justice in Times of Perpetual War
Today we learn about terrorism and immigration projected through the lens of justice largely from visual sites of public pedagogy (i.e., television, Internet, films, etc.). Given the pervasive and persuasive agenda of public pedagogy, schools have to rethink what it means to educate students in a visual age where new modes of information and cultural production dominate how knowledge is shaped and circulated. This paper explores the ways justice …
History as Art, Art as History
Visual Art and Education
The visual arts, like multicultural education, play a vital role in our understanding of diverse human experiences. In this article we explore the role of community-based contemporary art in education. We consider the ways that art practices speak to issues of history and culture as a site of investigation and a method of investigation in pedagogical practices. Two different approaches to community-based contemporary art forms are described and t…
Visual Art and Education
The visual arts, like multicultural education, play a vital role in our understanding of diverse human experiences. In this article we explore the role of community-based contemporary art in education. We consider the ways that art practices speak to issues of history and culture as a site of investigation and a method of investigation in pedagogical practices. Two different approaches to community-based contemporary art forms are described and t…
Visual Art and Education
The visual arts, like multicultural education, play a vital role in our understanding of diverse human experiences. In this article we explore the role of community-based contemporary art in education. We consider the ways that art practices speak to issues of history and culture as a site of investigation and a method of investigation in pedagogical practices. Two different approaches to community-based contemporary art forms are described and t…
Imagining Justice in Times of Perpetual War
Today we learn about terrorism and immigration projected through the lens of justice largely from visual sites of public pedagogy (i.e., television, Internet, films, etc.). Given the pervasive and persuasive agenda of public pedagogy, schools have to rethink what it means to educate students in a visual age where new modes of information and cultural production dominate how knowledge is shaped and circulated. This paper explores the ways justice …
History as Art, Art as History
Unframing Immigration
This article uses the lens of contemporary visual art as a counternarrative to explore the racialization of immigration in the United States and its relationship to education. Drawing on critical race theory, I argue that today several artists use their artistic practice to intervene strategically in the immigration debates. These artistic interventions are pedagogical because they open spaces for students to address the topic of immigration in b…
University of the Unknown
Response to The Orders of Cultural Production by Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández
A response to Gaztambide-Fernández's Keynote address
There Was So Much Silence Growing Up
This essay explores the specific artworks of Asian American artists Tomie Arai and Flo Oy Wong as complex articulations between culture, identity, history, and memory. Based on oral history interviews that were integral parts of their artistic processes, Arai and Wong created works that explored the family histories and memories of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans living in New York City’s Chinatown and California. Their artworks open up a sp…
Sociology (6 works) · Art Education and Development (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works)