AM 282 American - Popular Culture

Institution:

Colby College

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Description:

An interdisciplinary examination of the ways our ideas about race and ethnicity in the United States have been shaped and reshaped by popular cultural forms, from blackface minstrelsy of the 1840s to today. Special attention to the relationship between changing ideologies of race and ethnicity and the social, political, and historical experiences of a diverse range of people living in the United States. Examples from popular theater, recorded sound, radio, silent and sound film, advertising, television, and new computer-based media. Four credit hours. U.

Credits:

4.00

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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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