On Whiteness
<p>Co-founded in 2017 by authors Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda, The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) is an interdisciplinary collective of artists, writers, knowledge-producers, and activists. The institute’s historic 2018 symposium ‘On Whiteness’ convened a dazzling array of thinkers, artists, and activists. The essays that resulted from the event, collected here, seek to examine whiteness as a source of often unquestioned or even unobserved power, and make visible variations of this dangerous ideology that has been intentionally positioned as neutral.</p>
Authors: The Racial Imaginary Institute, Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda
Contributors: Lauren Berlant, Daniel Borzutsky, Jane Caflisch, Jeff Chang, Aruna D’Souza, Lori Gruen, Saidiya Hartman, Linda Martín Alcoff, Nell Irvin Painter, Doreen St. Félix
Artists: Alexandra Bell, Mel Chin, Ken Gonzales-Day, Titus Kaphar, Charlotte Lagarde, Carla Liesching, Glenn Ligon, Nell Painter, Hank Willis Thomas
Editors: Bruno Ceschel, Tom Ridgway
Designer: Brian Paul Lamotte
Manager: Hannah Dunsmore
Part of: SPBH Editions