by Jon Lackman | 24 May 2007 | Americas, Museums
In the spring 2007 issue of Latino Studies, Karen Mary Davalos writes on “the meaning of Chicana art collections”: “private collectors fill the vacancy left by local and federal museums and establish a public repository of Chicana art and culture … [like] feminist activists who generate movements for social change … [enacting] a poetics of love and rescue for Mexican-origin communities in the United States.” She also argues that scholars of collecting have “yet to systematically question the social construction of whiteness through private collections, particularly those that become the property of public museums.”
