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Academic Year 2000/2001

Art and Identity in the Black Atlantic World
AFAM 168 FA
Crosslistings:
ARHA 168
Clusters:
African Studies

This First-Year Initiative and seminar course explores the relationship between material culture and identity. Art and architecture play a central role in the definition of both individual and group identity. This seminar will select several case studies both from Africa and from the African Diaspora that illustrate the phenomenon whereby art expresses, symbolizes, or creates identity.

MAJOR READINGS

Poutignant, THEORIES OF ETHNICITY (Paris, 1995)-
Translated by Prof. Mark Kasinitz, CARIBBEAN NEW YORK
Bettelheim & Nunley, CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL ARTS
Mark, "Constructing Identity," in HISTORY IN AFRICA, 1995 and 1996
Additional readings to be announced

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Four short papers, one term paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

There will be one class trip to New York City, with Arts Bus, on a Saturday in early October.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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