HMS-602 Race, Performance, Media

3 Credits

This course explores the way intertwined concepts of race, gender, and sexuality are produced and contested through live performance, film, video, recording, and various internet incarna(ons. The circula(on of images, ideas, memes, music, and iconography will be examined in historical perspec(ve. These media will be considered not only as forma(ons through which dominant cultures reinforce oppressive systems and structures of feeling, but also as forma(ons through which racialized, gendered,and sexualized subjects contest these ideas.