ETHS 202 — F Race, Ethnicity and Popular Culture 3 Units
54 hours lecture per term. This course examines the contributions of people of color in film and popular culture and surveys the cultural, economic, social, and political forces that shape their representations in media. In this course, students will analyze representations of race, gender, and sexuality in US film, television, and new media utilizing ethnic studies theoretical frameworks and methods including queer of color critique, women of color feminisms, aesthetics, performance studies, cultural studies, and new media studies. Popular culture and independent productions are analyzed to understand how media representations reproduce and contest contemporary articulations of racialized, gendered, and sexualized experiences and social norms within contemporary society. (Degree Credit) (CSU) (UC) AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC