CHAPTER 3: A Curricular Exploration of the Boondocks for Art Education: A Philosophical Interpretation of Black Visual Culture Through the Critical Lens of Double Consciousness

Employing interpretation and interrogation strategies this article discusses the crisis surrounding the discourse of the under interpretation of Black visual culture in the United States. Black visual culture can be seen as a way of capturing the distinctive lived experiences of Black people by using visual imagery—visual imagery is an inner depiction of the lived experience. For instance, Black visual culture can also be a visual image of the reality of Black artists, their cultural environment, or their individual lived experiences. When Black visual culture captures the reality of the Black lived experience (the Black image, Black culture, and Black people), the interpretation of Black visual culture becomes complicated for someone who has not had the same or similar Black lived experience. As a result, Black visual culture becomes blurred and under interpreted. I am arguing that the under interpretation of Black visual culture in the United States comes from negative connotations about Black people from dominant Eurocentric and White Americans cultural ideology—anyone that is non-White is inferior to anyone that is White. These ideologies are so strong and so deeply embedded in White culture Pierterse (1992) stipulated,