2024-2025 Undergraduate General Catalog

ARTH 214 African-American Art History Survey

This seminar will introduce students to a history of African-American art and culture from the nineteenth century to the present.  The course will be organized around themes and case studies and will examine in context how American artists and intellectuals of African and Black diasporan descent have created works that reflect and respond to their eras, geographies, and lived experiences. Together, we will explore questions of identity, representation, self-representation, stereotypes, activism, resilience in the face of structures of oppression, and the positive outcomes of artists creating new responses and new horizons for their world.

Credits

3

Core Requirements

US Experience

Writing

Offered

Every other Spring, odd years