This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the ways in which modernity shapes cultural `difference' and `the human'. Readings will focus on the racial and geographic contours of colonialism, transatlantic slavery and The Enlightenment in order to bring into focus communities that challenge racial-sexual categorization through creative expression (music, fiction, poetry, and visual art as well as theory). Offered jointly with GNDS-427. EXCLUSION: GNDS-427
This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the ways in which modernity shapes cultural `difference' and `the human'. Readings will focus on the racial and geographic contours of colonialism, transatlantic slavery and The Enlightenment in order to bring into focus communities that challenge racial-sexual categorization through creative expression (music, fiction, poetry, and visual art as well as theory). Offered jointly with GNDS-427. EXCLUSION: GNDS-427
