AFR 368
The Diasporic Impulse in African American Art
Last Offered Fall 2018
Division II
Cross-listed COMP 367
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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Since the mid-20th century, growing numbers of African American artists have explored historical, symbolic, and ritual meanings shared by Blacks in the USA and people of African descent in other parts of the diaspora. Using specific visual, musical, literary, and kinetic themes, Black creatives–across genres–develop work that addresses explicit and implicit points of diasporic connection around issues of identity, indigenous/ancestral wisdom, cultural and political critique, and alternative religious orientations. Looking especially at the work of playwright August Wilson, painters John Biggers and Daniel Minter, dancer Katherine Dunham, and sculptor Elizabeth Catlett Mora, this course examines the symbolic and ritual vocabularies of African American art in diasporic perspective.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 1018
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class participation, two to three short papers (5-7 pages), and a final project
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Africana Studies concentrators
Distributions: Divison II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 367 Division I AFR 368 Division II

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