ARTH 4526 - Caribbean Dialogues: Online!

(crosslisted)
(also VISST 4526) @ (CA-AS)

Summer. 4 credits.

P. Archer-Straw.

Using Caribbean art as a case study, the course explores themes such as new world history, colonialism, Diaspora, trauma, violence, and tourism. Through an understanding of basic cultural theory, class members come to see how perceptions of Caribbean culture are historically fluid and subject to variation as they are categorized and textualized. Similarly through active participation students are invited to question their own considerations of identity, culture, race and ethnicity. Caribbean Dialogs: Online! examines the imaginary, creative spirit of the region’s artists to show ways that they are reconfiguring themselves to meet the needs of a changing world at once apprehensive but also charmed by black culture.

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