VIS 12R. Race and Class in American Visual Culture (4 units)
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Description
This course explores the history of racism and economic injustice in the US as it has been traced through photography, film, painting, advertising, and political propaganda in four sections. Exploration of mechanisms of racist ideology that emerged following the Civil War. The reemergence of the KKK during the 1920s. Exploration of the “Southern Strategy” developed by the Nixon campaign in 1968. Examination of the evolution of this strategy through new forms of white supremacy beginning in the 1980s. This course is a distance education course. Prerequisites: none.
Prerequisite courses
VIS 12R has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have VIS 12R as a prerequisite.