COMM 335: Blackness in American Visual Culture

Course Description

This course will explore how American visual culture expressed multiple ideas about blackness for more than 400 years. This course will focus on how stereotypes and popular forms of visual culture have constructed black racial identity through popular prints, political cartoons, satire, photographs, paintings, illustrated books, and periodicals, along with the emergence of television, film and social media. It will also expose students to the realities of new Black identity through the emergence of Black cultural expression and Black artistic liberty through various forms of visual art and digital media. Cross-listed: AF AM ST 335/COMM 335.