1-3pm, in Rm 119 of the Sackler Museum.
Enrollment is limited to graduate students only.
Utilizing works from such fields as art history, cultural studies and film criticism, this course will explore the historical construction of race as a cultural mythology. We will examine the way that the dominant culture's constructions of Native American and Asian identity, of Blackness and Whiteness, couple with ideologies of class and gender to impact the visual arts and help to fashion new entertainment, including spectacles, blackface minstrelsy and early film. Required readings must be completed prior to the class meeting for which they are assigned. One 20-25 page research paper on the topic of your choice. It will be due on Wednesday May 16 at 5pm in my box in the Sackler.