The Whitewashing of “#WhitePeopleDoingYoga” – Mother Jones
▻https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/10/white-people-yoga-sf-asian-art-museum
Intéressant récit du conflit entre un musée blanc (mais chut !) et un #artiste indien américain qui dans son œuvre met en lumière l’appropriation culturelle du #yoga (disparition des visages indiens, marchandisation et exotisation de leur art, etc.). Un cas d’école.
#art #musée #racisme #blanchité
That was it: My experience with the Asian Art Museum was an exercise in watching white people work out their identity on the back of mine. The platform they seemed to give me, it turned out, wasn’t actually for me—it was for them, a way to fashion my Brownness into something they could wear.
