Race and Visual Culture

This is a sophomore seminar on race and visual media, including everything from high art on canvas to lowbrow film, from the comic book superhero Blank Panther to the Black Panther Party, from the avant-garde to the burlesque, from the web to graffiti to homemade t-shirts. People who sign up for the class should be prepared to read a lot and talk a lot, to regularly get to the RISD museum, to watch a lot of stuff on OCRA, and to maybe take a field trip or two to Boston's MFA and some similar sort of place. Curiosity is required.