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 (2020:262-63); racist aesthetic, the; white aesthetic, the; white saviour trope.
- Audio: ‘The Birth of American Music’, 1619 Podcast (6 September 2019). Wesley Morris talks to Nikole Hannah-Hones further about the subject of his essay.
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Due: TAKE-HOME ESSAY FINAL EXAM
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 8 (‘Aesthetics’): ‘The Racialization of Art Worlds’; ‘Cultural Appropriation’; ‘The Sociology of Art, the Art of Sociology’
- Jason Parham, ‘Tik Tok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface’, Wired (4 August 2020)
