Social Justice and the Arts

Lee Anne Bell is Professor and Barbara Silver Horowitz Director of Education at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. Her most recent book is Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching (Routledge, 2010) and she is co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2007). She recently produced a documentary film about integration in Mississippi that powerfully exposes, through the recollections of those who lived through this historic period, the individual and institutional practices and impacts of racism in education (2013).

Dipti Desai is an Associate Professor and Director of the graduate program in art education at New York University, USA. As a scholar and artist-educator she is committed to addressing the formative role of visual representation and its politics in order to affect social change. She has published widely in the area of critical multiculturalism/ critical race theory in art education, contemporary art as a pedagogical site, and critical pedagogy. Her co-authored book History as Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education received an Honorable mention for the Curriculum Practice Category by Division B of the American Education and Research Association.