Race and the Making of Art

In this course, we will begin by examining how race is constructed, systematized, codified, commodified, and disseminated across various spaces in society through the study of several key scholarly and theoretical works. We will then use that lens to explore how different artists from multiple disciplines (poetry, visual art, music, and performance) have engaged issues of race in their work to both affirm individual and collective racial identities and trouble the ways those identities have been represented and understood. Each student will create creative or critical works reflecting their own intersections with these topics.