Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0268 - Race and Representation

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, Tricontinentalism, 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.

Media and Technology Prerequisite: Prior critical/theoretical work in humanities and cultural studies or in the critical social sciences. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. P