Black Screen Cultures

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The course considers the global circulation of Black culture(s) via diasporic (US/Caribbean, African, Afro-pean, Afro-Asian) cultural forms, including painting, lithography, photography, cinema, anime, and the discursive habits of cyberspace. Screenings of photography, television, music videos, cartoons allow students to reflect on Black aesthetic traditions and media practices as a way of engaging a civil society structured by racial antagonism. Readings draw on African art history, audio and film culture studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory and ethnic studies