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Survey of major developments in commercial and artistic photographic practice from the 19th century to the present, with emphasis on the role that this technology and its interpretation have played in shaping racial imaginaries and art history, primarily in the U.S. This course considers how institutionalized concepts of blackness and whiteness are manifest in image production and circulation, and how the social formation of race affects who and what is and is not visible in the photographic record.
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