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Campbell, Denise. "Quilting A Culture: Theories of Aesthetics, Representation, and Resistance in African-American Quiltmaking," Culture Studies, Claremont Graduate University, March 2006.
This dissertation focuses on the critique and development of theoretical paradigms for African-American quilt scholarship. It also reveals the impact of certain approaches on African-American quilt research and considers the potential for paradigm shifts designed to improve our approach and yield more useful outcomes. I critique prevailing theories of African-American quilt aesthetics and deconstruct areas of contestation which African-American quilters believe cause harm to their overall community. I offer pragmatic remedies to these charges of harm and ground my arguments in the discursive discourse of cultural studies. The study relies on transdisciplinary methodology drawing from African-American studies, black feminist ethnography, ethnomathematics, genealogy studies, African-American art history, cultural studies, subaltern studies and quilt studies. Within this rubric I problematize insular scholarship as well as the practice of viewing African-American quilts through a white Eurocentric aesthetic of art for art’s sake, while voicing African-American quiltmakers as object rather than subjects of their own history. I discuss the role of African-American quilts as cultural commentary, strategic defiance, and identity signifiers. I also demonstrate how other disciplines inform the unique role of African-American quilters as cultural preservationists.
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