ARHI186L PO
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Critical Race Theory, Representation and the Rule of Law
Description
Course examines the visual arts (including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, textiles, mixed media, installations, performance, independent cinema, short films, music videos, and web series) produced by African Diasporan creatives, from the 1960s Black Arts Movement through postmodernist themes of the 80s & 90s, and contemporary visual arts of the present. Thematically, the course focuses on identifying the aesthetic values, key representational themes, visual conventions, symbolic codes, and stylistic approaches interrogating the socio-political worlds shaped by the rule of law.
Recognizing representation is constitutive; the course explores the patriarchal bio-determinist aesthetics underpinning jurisprudence (the philosophy and science of the law) and visual representations through the lens of Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism—academic fields growing out of the civil and human rights movements of the 60s and the critical legal studies movement of the 70s.
Recognizing representation is constitutive; the course explores the patriarchal bio-determinist aesthetics underpinning jurisprudence (the philosophy and science of the law) and visual representations through the lens of Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism—academic fields growing out of the civil and human rights movements of the 60s and the critical legal studies movement of the 70s.
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