Association for Critical Race Art History, ACRAH Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH) The Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH) is a professional organization that promotes art historical scholarship from a critical race perspective. CRITICAL RACE ART HISTORY is a scholarly commitment to the investigation of race in art and visual culture. This critical approach asserts that notions of difference have always mattered in visual culture and that such concepts now consolidated under the rubric of race play a fundamental role in modern life. Critical race art history seeks to reveal how concepts of race are manifest in visual representation and expose the construction of visual power.