Race & Visual Representations in Art and Media

Catalog description

Guides students toward developing a critical eye and useful tools for encountering, analyzing, critiquing, and creating visual representations of “race” in this visually saturated world. Studies paintings, photography, films, music videos, and social media that relate to wide-ranging topics, from the legacy of the “Hottentot Venus,” miscegenation and passing, the myth of the “vanishing race,” blackface and minstrelsy, to anti-[insert group] imagery, and cross-cultural appropriation/appreciation in a global economy. Incorporates interdisciplinary texts and creative projects throughout the course.