From objects to subjects
The museumification of Blackness in Mexico’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Talia Weltman-Cisneros (Southern Methodist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-97 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17528631.2019.1637604 |
| OpenAlex | W2954364656 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The performative role of the museum as a ‘historical map’ has long served to construct strategic cartographies of identity and community. In addition, the nature of the relational experiences within museum spaces, places these histories and cartographies in a contact zone, in which structures of power and agency influence the locus of enunciation through which subjecthood and objecthood are derived. This essay examines the influential role of museums in Mexico in imaging, framing, and performing strategic configurations of mexicanidad. Particularly, I interrogate how museums have historically muted and made invisible the representation of Mexicans of African descent.Then, I analyze two important regional museums and theorize how they present a transition from objecthood to subjecthood, in which Afro-Mexican knowledge and consciousness is reified to configure an alternative mapping of African heritage within the space of museums and within constructions of racial formations and narratives of being and belonging in Mexico
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Consciousness · Construct (python library · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |