The Black Atlantic Goes Pop

3 credits · Graduate

This course explores the way that different strands of the African diaspora come to influence each other, especially in the realm of popular culture. Jumping off from Paul Gilroy’s foundational work, this course asks how we might read representations of African diasporic interpenetration as working within a complex web of ideas about authenticity, identity, affiliation, hybridity, and originality. This course will consider a variety of forms and genres as well as theoretical and critical readings FORMATS: Seminar