Art History 690STB - The Visual Culture of Slavery
Spring
2025
01
3.00
Charmaine Nelson
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
51779
South College Room E245
charmainenel@umass.edu
51778
Focusing on the British Empire and various styles, genres, and types of art, this course explores the visual archive that was produced across the 400-year history of Transatlantic Slavery to understand how race and colonialism were constructed and reified through access to cultural capital and various forms of artistic production.