EN 718 Race and Visual Culture (Summer: 3)
How do historically inherited and contemporary ideas about race color our
vision? Where and how does race figure in and figure film, t.v., photography,
and art installations? This seminar looks at how race and visual culture
have intersected over the last 100 years. Beginning with theories that
consider the meaning(s) of visual culture and race, the course uses the
critical vocabulary we will develop to examine three themes; slavery and
its aftermaths; urban subjects; and race in a "post-race" world. Some topics
we will consider include Birth of at Nation, The Wire and the art
of Kara Walker.
Cynthia Young
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