BIG IDEAS in Art and Culture Lecture Series featuring Kathy Hogarth
What's race got to do with it? Race representation and appropriation in arts
This talk explores how race is represented and often misrepresented through various forms of arts and questions the role of arts and culture in advancing race relations in todays society and context.
This lecture compliments the inclusion of Hogarth's book A Space for Race: Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond in the CAFKA Summer Reading Series: White Elephant Edition. Accompanying the 2021 biennial program, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, CAFKA has programmed a series of book clubs, reading groups, and public lectures that seek to interrogate racism and white supremacy, drive community dialogue on issues of social justice, and facilitate working strategies to actively dismantle these ongoing systems of oppression.
Dr. Kathy Hogarth is the Special Advisor on Antiracism and Inclusivity and an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Waterloo. Much of her work is focused on race, racism and related social policy. She is an avid advocate for change related to race equity and anti-racism. Dr. Hogarth is the author of the book “A Space for Race: Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond”.
Hogarth's 2018 book A Space for Race written with Wendy L. Fletcher explores the impact of unquestioned racial assumptions in the Canadian narrative which have constructed an insider/outsider culture. From that baseline, the authors then developed an analytic designed to move beyond racialized othering to a society of genuine inclusivity and universal belonging.
Presented in partnership with Musagetes
