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ARHI 178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation


CrsNo ARHI178 PO


When Offered: Spring 2012.

Instructor(s): P. Jackson

The visual arts produced by people of African descent in the U.S. from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis on Black artists’ changing relationship to African arts and cultures, the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition that interrogates visual constructions of “Blackness” and “Whiteness,” gender and sexuality as a means of revisioning representational practices. Recommended prior course in art history or Asian American studies, Africana studies, gender and women’s studies or media studies.



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