Course Info: HACU-0241
| Course | HACU-0241 Race and Representation |
| Long Title | Race and Representation |
| Term | 2025S |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 108 on T,TH from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Jennifer Bajorek |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 1 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | The content of this course deals with issues of race and power Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This course will examine questions of race and representation
through contemporary art, literature, and visual and cultural
theory. Students will consider the complex and intertwined
histories of race and representation across a range of media and
genres (painting, photography, film, video and new media art,
performance, short fiction, spoken word, and poetry), periods,
and cultural spaces. Critical and theoretical readings will span
colonial and postcolonial contexts; engage with Orientalism,
primitivism, Indigenous futurism, and Black feminist philosophy;
and be drawn from art history, media theory, postcolonial theory,
and thinkers taking intersectional approaches to race in both
visual and literary studies. Students will also be introduced to
current debates about the "inherent racism" of photography, the
politics of abstraction, and data healing. Keywords:Art History, Visual Studies, Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Photography History |