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

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

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: ARHI178 PO