In this week’s Race + Power Weekly we explore aspects of the process of speaking for oneself when one is positioned as subordinate in society. In the latest Tiny Spark podcast, we hear from Alyce Sadongei, co-director of the Doris Duke Native Oral History Revitalization Project at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. She gives us a glimpse of what it’s like to represent native communities as a museum archivist when they question even the concept of “museum,” a Western idea based on a predatory history.
Colony Little’s piece on Deborah Roberts’s images of black childhood shifts the gaze to Black children and lets them speak for themselves, inviting us to be validated or challenged. The third piece is an example of how we often create new concepts when speaking for ourselves; “racial gaslighting” names a common subordination tactic. Read it and answer our survey question.
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