AM 375 Seminar - Race and Visual Culture

Institution:

Colby College

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Description:

Asks how American visual culture helped construct racial categories in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Examines painting, sculpture, photography, minstrelsy, spectacles, and early film. Considers how ideologies of class and gender intersect with constructions of blackness, whiteness, Native American, and Asian-American identity. Emphasizes skills of visual analysis. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Four credit hours. U.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colby.edu

Phone Number:

(207) 859-4000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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