ABSTRACT
This chapter is a conversation between a white artist who works on issues of whiteness in social art practice and public art and a white feminist art scholar whose work has challenged the boundaries between art and social issues for over fifty years. Including a series of questions Diggs posed to multiracial interviewees and mounted on artworks and signs, the authors draw visual and intellectual inspiration from multicultural scholars and artists: Angela Pelster-Wiebe, Toni Morrison (1992), David Roediger, Patricia Williams, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ryan Lee Wong, Ruth Frankenberg, Maurice Berger, Lorraine O’ Grady, Andrea Fraser, Gayatri Spivak, and Rachel Cargle. Among the questions they ask are: In what ways do you feel yourself to be white? What does being white mean to you? Why is it so hard to talk and make art about whiteness?
