Black Studies 178bk - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of presentation

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Claremont McKenna College

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P. Jackson Survey of the visual arts produced by people of African descent in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis on Black artists and changing relationship to African arts and cultures. Examines the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition that interrogates visual constructions of "blackness" and"whiteness," gender and sexuality as a means of revisioningrepresentational practices. Offered every other year.

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1.50

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.claremontmckenna.edu/

Phone Number:

(909) 621-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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