Interview with Guggenheim Curator Ashley James

Ashley James always had a tendency to question dominant historical narratives. 

Last year, she earned her doctorate from Yale University in English literature and two other fields — African American studies and gender studies — that regularly interrogate the versions of history that have been handed down by mostly white men.

“What is shared amongst those fields is this understanding that whiteness and power kind of undergird everything,” James, an associate curator of contemporary art at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, said. 

Read the full interview here.