Summer Humanities Institute - Racial Identity in the American Imagination

From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented, and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal, and literary texts and films, we will examine the major historical transformations that have shaped our understandings of racial identity. We will also explore autobiography, memoir, photography, and music to consider the ways that racial identity has been represented in American society.