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ARHI178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation

When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): P. Jackson
Credit: 1

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, Africana studies, gender and women’s studies or media studies.



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