AP/HUMA 3201 6.00
Culture, Meaning & Form
This course focuses on interrogating how the modern conception of race and racism has been produced and reproduced within cultural forms over time. We will analyze fictional and non- fictional texts to critique the role of culture and representation played in both constituting and perpetuating the violences of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism. We will also examine how have racialized peoples have subverted dominant representations of racial difference and offered alternative cultural forms and imaginaries.
The course explores theories and analyses of race and resistance in the first halves of each term and then examines different forms of cultural representation in the latter halves. We will read and view texts that theorize, imagine, represent, and contest race and racial formations.