Macalester Moodle

THDA

MCST

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THDA

This course is a survey of cultural production of and about Blackness. Not only will students "look" at the work of artists, filmmakers, and theoreticians, we will also analyze and produce images that consider the relationship between the Blackness and racialization. We will read works by Tina Campt, Michael Gillespie, and Teju Cole and think about how the production of images has shifted form the 19th century to now. Also included in this class are canonical films like Marlong Riggs "Ethnic Notions" and D.W. Griffiths "Birth of A Nation," however we will also look at contemporary visual projects like Beyoncé’s "Cowboy Carter," and Garrett Bradley’s "America." While the course is focused primarily on the US, we will also talk about racial formations beyond the US and how cultural workers outside the US have engaged Blackness as a way of seeing, a way of listening, and a process of being.

CHIN

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