History and Memory: Race, Archives, and Afterlives

5 credits

Addresses questions such as: What is memorialized and archived and what is forgotten? How is history racialized and how are racial histories told? Who produces knowledge and what counts as knowledge? Examines how official and unofficial discourses deal with memory, violence, silence, haunting, history, and subjectivity, through historical and cultural studies approaches. Topics may include U.S. empire and war, slavery, and colonialism. Recommended: any AES, AAS, CHSTU, AFRAM, GWSS, or AIS course. Offered: WSp.