Students will study Black visual culture through the historical origins of world fair displays and museums (bodies and art objects as ethnographic study), fashion (dress, style, culturally-coded representation, photography), popular culture and mainstream entertainment (film, television) to policy, social protest and cultural movements. (Cross-list with Ethnic Studies programs, Media/Communication Arts) With a focus on the cultural production of the 20 th and 21 st century, this inter-disciplinary course examines how the visual informs the construction of race, gender and sexuality within social and historical contexts. This course will examine how contemporary artists have engaged these stereotypes as a means to reproduce alternative visual representations of history, culture and race. While there is an emphasis on racial representations, the course will also examine intersections with gender, sexuality and class. As a means to gain media literacy, students will learn how to recognize and analyze racial stereotypes in relation to the concepts of social inequality and white privilege. Inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem " We Wear The Mask, " (1896) this inter-disciplinary course examines how race is constructed through representations in art, art history, museums, popular culture (film) and popular media (television).
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