New Special Topics Course: Black Masculinity in Mass Media

This summer, the African American Studies Department is offering a special topics course in black culture, AASP498M: Black Masculinity in Mass Media: How Blackness has formed (and re-formed) in U.S. Entertainment Culture. It will be held from May 31, 2016 - July 8, 2016.

The goal of this class is to present to new students how entertainment and media product creation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries have directly shaped the forms of leisure activity that they enjoy today. The depictions of Blackness and masculinity in movies and television are in key focus for this course.

For more information, check out the flyer below.