HIST 2510 - [Race and Popular Culture]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 2501) (HA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

M. Washington.

This course examines the intersection of race and popular culture in America, historically and thematically, focusing primarily on the black-white experience, Genres of minstrelsy, radio, film & music provided forms of entertainment that were also mediums through which the racial “other” was often ridiculed and denigrated in order to promote and sustain “whiteness.” However some appropriation of the “other” might involve genuine regard/appreciation of diverse cultural forms. This course explores the intersection of racial imagery, racial stereotypes, cultural borrowing and the cultural diffusion in 19th and 20th century America.