HUM 403 - Black Image & Popular U. S Culture

Institution:

Antioch University-Los Angeles

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Description:

In this course students critically examine the authentic, fictional and distorted image of black Americans created for mass consumption in mainstream popular American culture and entertainment. This course further examines significant distinctions between images presented by black Americans and those created by others that merely depict African Americans. Nearly three centuries of popular American culture, mass media, and American history are examined in order to grasp the full scope and impact the black image had and continues to have on the American psyche. In addition, through films, video, and guest speakers the course offers an interdisciplinary examination of what W.E.B DuBois refers to as "the bifurcation of the Negro image, that peculiar sensation of a doubleconsciousness, the sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. one ever feels his or her twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings" (Soul of Black Folks, 1903). HUMANITIES DOMAIN

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antiochla.edu

Phone Number:

(310) 578-1080

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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