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AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES (L90)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)

L90 AFAS 280Imaging Blackness: Race and Visual Culture in the African Diaspora3.0 Units
Description:In 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that the "biggest problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color line." By this stage, cinema and photography were already well established technologies that were being used to produce and justify differences between black and white subjects. Collectively through historical and theoretical readings, film screenings, and by engaging with a variety of visual arts practices, in this seminar we will first examine the relationship between early visual technologies and modern understandings of race. Since the development of photography and cinema, scientists, anthropologists, and the state have mobilized such visual technologies to inscribe racialized difference onto black/African/native bodies. Central to our analysis is the manner in which visual technologies have produced the black/African body as not just racially different but also deviant in terms of gender and sexuality. After establishing the historical context, we will shift our focus to consider how contemporary artists from the Africa diaspora use visual culture and aesthetics to actively challenge and critique overdetermined stereotypes of blackness. Throughout the semester we will study the manner in which class, gender, and sexuality are central to the production of the black body and we will engage with various representations of blackness that consider these intersecting social formations.
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