Blk Life,Cult,Politics 1990s

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course examines the proliferation of black cultural production--literature, film, visual culture--that emerged during the 1990s—in the third decade following legislative achievements that the modern civil rights movement made possible. The course considers how black culture and black cultural producers imagined possibilities for black life, politics, culture, and self-expression during this watershed moment of black cultural expression. The course pays attention to how the achievements of the modern civil rights movements and the subsequent backlashes to these advancements emerge and re-emerge during the 1990s. The course investigates the visions for black life that different black artists put forward that promote black thriving as well as imagines additional ones.