AMST288
Visualizing Race
Subject code
AMST
Course Number
288
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Rand
Course Long Title
Visualizing Race
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course considers visual constructions of race in art and popular culture, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. General topics include the role of visual culture in creating and sustaining racial stereotypes, racism, white supremacy, and white-skin privilege; the effects upon cultural producers of their own perceived race in terms of both their opportunities and their products; and the relations of constructions of race to those of gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC]
Writing Credit
W2
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(Africana: Intro Sequence), (AVC: Race, Sexuality, Gender)
INDS Program Relationship
IDAF - AFR Program, IDAM - AMST Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
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