African American history and culture

Elecitve Course

This course invites students to write new stories about African American history and culture. We engage with Black voices and ideas by analyzing museum objects, movies, dance, photos, art, science fiction, and scholarly work. And we unpack concepts such as Blackness, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality. Key course themes include how we construct race and gender; how bodies become sites of knowledge and conflict; how Blackness is understood in Hong Kong (from Darlie to hip hop); and how we record, display, and share history and memory through museums, music videos, and more.