Arts and Culture
Overview
Arts and culture are among the powerful ways that existing racial/ethnic representations, messages and stories are created and shared. They are also useful tools for engaging with audiences around racial equity topics, and in support of transformative learning. See the Racial Equity Learning curricula on this site, as well as the resources in this section, for ways in which groups have harnessed this power toward their racial equity work. Please also see the section on cultural racism for insight into the negative power of arts and culture in forming and maintaining racial/ethnic stereotypes and narratives.
Key sites
- Ashé Cultural Arts Center
- Alternate Roots
- Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for a Revolution
- Until We Are All Free
- Going to the Root: How White Caucuses Contribute to Racial Justice
Practices
- Arts and Culture in Communities: Systems of Support
- Using Art and Theater to Support Organizing for Justice
- Community Character: How Arts and Cultural Strategies Create, Reinforce, and Enhance Sense of Place
- The Storytelling Project Curriculum: Learning About Race and Racism Through Storytelling and the Art
- Art and Organizing Art as Organizing
- Voice of Art - Migration Is Beautiful, Pt. 1
- Voice of Art - Migration Is Beautiful, Pt. 2
- Voice of Art - Migration Is Beautiful, Pt. 3
- How to Reimagine the World: Collaboration Principles for Artists and Social Justice Organizations
- Cultural Plan
- Rise Up! Curriculum Inspired by Hamilton: An American Musical
- A Cultural Strategy: An Introduction and a Primer
- Until we are Free: Racial Justice Art and Story Sessions
- Making Waves: A Guide to Cultural Strategy
- Arts and Equity Toolkit
Resources
- Art, Creative Practice, Action and Leadership, Next Generation
- The Edge Between Cultures-- Margins: Communities of Color During Times of Retrenchment
- Creative Change
- Guernica: Race in America
- An Artist's Unflinching Look at Racial Violence
- Titus Kaphar: How Can We Address Centuries of Racism in Art?
- Power and Privilege in the 21st Century Museum
- Museums could be powerful, liberatory spaces if they let go of their colonial practices
- Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging
- It’s Time to Let Classical Music Die
