Methodological Considerations for Intercultural Arts Research: Phenomenology, Ethnography, Collage Narrative, and Ethics

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Re|Centering Indigenous arts in art education: Decolonizing identity politics, censorship, and home

“…Manifestly, the indian is an occidental misnomer, an overseas enactment that has no referent to real native cultures or communities." Vizenor, 1999, p. vii As a cisgendered white, male, artist, educator and researcher, I continue to experience my position working with those whose racial-socio-cultural-educational experience is different than mine, as I have written from and continue to define an alliance position in context with Indigenous artists, scholars, and educators (Kraehe, Acuff, Slivka, & Pfieler-Wunder, 2015;Slivka, 2015aSlivka, , 2015bSlivka, , 2016. I advance critical understandings of the construction and deployment of Whiteness in art education contexts intended to decolonize White discourses of identity politics, cultural censorship as White privilege and power (Acuff, 2018;Knight, 2006;Kraehe, Hood, & Travis, 2015) in relation to Indigenous peoples, arts, and their cultures to generate alliance positions with Indigenous-self-determining outcomes (Grande, 2004;Smith, 2012).…”