AAS 140 Black-ish: Black Identities in the Global Age
What does it mean to be Black in an age that is constantly changing and redefining the contours and contexts of our identities? In this class, we’re going to engage a variety of cultural expressions of Blackness in the US and beyond in literature, music, film and visual art. We’ll read literature that spans from Langston Hughes to Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, watch films that span from The Color Purple to Get Out, explore elements of contemporary pop culture like Key and Peele and A Black Lady Sketch Show and engage topics as diverse as African American Vernacular English, Afrolatinidad and Afrofuturism.