THE ART OF DIVERSITY: RACE AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES

3-4 credits.

The history of art and visual culture in the United States from the period of colonization until the present from the perspective of how that imagery produced ideas of race and operated to define, exclude, and include various groups over time. Three basic aims: 1. To introduce art history of the United States from c. 1600-2018; 2.To provide skills in visual analysis and critical thinking; and 3. To encourage the understanding of ethnic and cultural minorities in the United States with an emphasis on the visual arts related to marginalization or minority status in the twentieth-and twenty-first century.