Director of Museum Studies Monique Scott is one of two Philadelphia-area curators interviewed by Artblog for a piece on the decolonization of Western museums.
From the article:
Monique Scott, a curatorial advisor to the Penn Museum’s new Africa Galleries, defines one act of decolonization as “tracing specific colonial histories of African objects in museums through archival research, looking at the language white outsiders used when describing the Black people they encountered and the Black artwork they assigned value to and circulated in a Western political economy. This discourse, this language, these words left a legacy for racial and racist ideology today.”
Read the full article.