AP/HREQ 3604 6.00
Racism and Culture
This course uses a critical human rights approach to explore human rights responses to racism as represented in popular culture. Music, literature, film, digital media, and other art forms have both reproduced and resisted racialized representations, and thus serve as the popular medium for human rights struggles. how the nexus of big business, human rights and peace is treated in pop culture, and what significance this might have on consumer behaviour. This course will explore how pop culture shapes a critical mass of informed consumers, corporate responsibility: and government regulation due to pop culture products which have set in motion collective and individual ways of relating to a world where racism and human rights abuse take place. The course will also explore Black artists, inspired by social movements, release music and videos that address issues of human rights and social justice or celebrate Blackness. Using concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci the course examines the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. You will learn how Resistant discourses reproduce or transforms understandings of race and racism, social inequalities, and power relationships in society.
Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST 3604 6.00 (prior to Winter 2019)
Prerequisite: 24 credits