AMSTS10

This course combines an emphasis on visual culture with political concerns and ethical theory. We ground our study in the work of artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, Will Wilson (Navajo/Diné), Fazal Sheikh, and Alicia Grullón, who deploy photography and performance work to contest the ongoing problem of environmental racism in the United States. Students read studies of intersections of racism, economic policy, and pollution in the violence that is environmental racism, including texts by Rob Nixon and Dorceta Taylor. Our goal is to understand how art conveys lived experiences of environmental racism and also to frame the problematic of this pattern of pollution through discussions of ethics and politics.

One or two courses in the Humanities.