Copyright (c) 2012 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel Recent documents in Shawna Hanel en-us Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:41:33 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/5 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/5 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:29:56 PST Invisible Hands follows the flow of oil, through a terrain afflicted by the overwhelming production and consumption of superfluous goods. At the end of this viscous river, one finds in our invisible hands, a planet littered with petroleum by-products, the ubiquitous plastics our world is awash with.

]]> Shawna Hanel Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity and Actions for a Better Future http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/4 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/4 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:03:53 PST Invisible Hands follows the flow of oil, through a terrain afflicted by the overwhelming production and consumption of superfluous goods. At the end of this viscous river, one finds in our invisible hands, a planet littered with petroleum by-products, the ubiquitous plastics our world is awash with.

]]> Shawna Hanel As Long As You Think You're White... Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity and Actions for a Better Future http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/3 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/3 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:24:09 PST This body of work encourages white people to recognize that their histories, perspectives, and experiences are not those of humanity, but rather those of white humanity; while simultaneously exposing the falsity of inherent whiteness. In other words, the exhibit and web site provide a space for white people to perceive their whiteness in the contexts of socialization, material culture, and economic location; and then to begin to disavow it within their attitudes, behaviors, and identities. Recognizing and disavowing whiteness concurrently may appear contradictory. Both are strategies necessary for the creation of white identities capable of acknowledging the gross historical injustices carried out in their names and accepting ongoing culpability in the maintenance of historical inequalities, without becoming paralyzed by guilt.

]]> Shawna Hanel http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/1 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/1 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:47:30 PST This body of work encourages white people to recognize that their histories, perspectives, and experiences are not those of humanity, but rather those of white humanity; while simultaneously exposing the falsity of inherent whiteness. In other words, the exhibit, paper and web site provide a space for white people to perceive their whiteness in the contexts of socialization, material culture, and economic location; and then to begin to disavow it within their attitudes, behaviors, and identities. Recognizing and disavowing whiteness concurrently may appear contradictory. Both are strategies necessary for the creation of white identities capable of acknowledging the gross historical injustices carried out in their names and accepting ongoing culpability in the maintenance of historical inequalities, without becoming paralyzed by guilt.

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