For a "works in progress" show, I set up a desk in the gallery where I immersed myself in critical studies of whiteness. The intention of the project was mainly to expand my own understanding of whiteness studies and critical race theory at a time when Michigan - the state I had recently moved to - was preparing for a plebiscite to ban affirmative action statewide. While I became the "work in progress," I also tried to make whiteness - and related structures of privilege, power, and property - more visible before the election. To extend the project beyond the reaches of the gallery, I wrote a letter to the editor of the Michigan Daily, which was published as the primary op-ed on election day 2007 (read it here).
