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• HIST 220 From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film 6 credits

  This course focuses on the representation of African American history in popular US-American movies. It will introduce students to the field of visual history, using cinema as a primary source. Through films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the seminar will analyze African American history, (pop-)cultural depictions, and memory culture. We will discuss subjects, narrative arcs, stylistic choices, production design, performative and film industry practices, and historical receptions of movies. The topics include slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy, the Black Freedom Movement, controversies and conflicts in Black communities, Black LGBTQIA+ history, ghettoization and police brutality, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism.

  Extra time

  • Offered: Spring 2025
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
  • Tags: ACE Theoretical AFST Humanistic Inquiry AFST Pertinent AFST Survey Course AMST Democracy Activism AMST Prdctn Consmptn Cult HIST Africa & Diaspora HIST Modern HIST US History CL: 200 level AMST Race Ethnicty Indign

  • HIST  220.00 Spring 2025

  • Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am