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2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

AFST 488. African American Art


3.00
Crosslisted: ARTH 488 

This course examines visual arts produced by people of African descent in the United States from the colonial period until the present. Course themes include debates about the relationship between racial identity and artistic production; the complex interchange between African-American art and the cultural traditions of Africa and Europe; black artists¿ engagement with popular representations of African Americans; and the intersection of race with class, gender, and sexuality.