For Wednesday, 27 April

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 8 (‘Aesthetics’): ‘Race and Art in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America’; ‘Racial Representation in Art’. keywords: antiracist aesthetic, minstrelsy; the; multiculturalism; racist aesthetic, the; white aesthetic, the; white saviour trope.
• ‘The Birth of American Music’, 1619 Podcast (6 September 2019)

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Midterm Review
  • Invisibility of whiteness is not simply about white privilege. Nor is it simply about racism, or about racial injustice.
• Q&A: Race & Aesthetics
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 8 (‘Aesthetics’): ‘The Racialization of Art Worlds’; ‘Cultural Appropriation’; ‘The Sociology of Art, the Art of Sociology’. keywords: antiracist appropriation; cultural appropriation (pp. 308-314); highbrow and lowbrow culture (pp. 305-308); racist appropriation; white gaze, the.