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    Course Number: HA 187AC | CCN: 31489

    Race and Representation In The Twentieth Century in the United States

    Lauren Kroiz

    Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 3:00 - 4:00PM

    This class focuses on theories and visualizations of race in the United States during the twentieth century. Class sessions will be organized around chronological case studies of diverse subjects made in varied media, including Thomas Dewing’s tonalist paintings, baby albums, the art of the Harlem Renaissance, photographs of WWII Japanese American internment, civil rights movement posters, and conceptual art by the collective ASCO. Drawing on critical theories of race and representation, in this course we will interrogate complex and sometimes vexing notions of race, ethnicity, visuality, visibility, authorship, identity and display in historical context.  

    This course fulfills the following Major requirements: Geographical areas (C) and Chronological period (III).
     

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