Hip Hop and Politics of Race

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UGST 109 FIG Seminar

XXXX | XXXX | XXXX | XXXX | 1 Credit

Hip Hop and the Politics of Race encourages students to explore artistic practices of hip hop and learn how to produce and promote a hip hop music/art event. Students will also learn to situate hip hop and rap music within broader discussions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 20th and 21st centuries. The main focus of this FIG is planning the Annual UO Hip Hop Jam, which we will pair with the Critical Art show produced by the Remixing Media, ©ritiquing ©ulture FIG. 

Deep-Dive FIG: Please note this FIG contains a challenging long-term project and 300-level intermediate course. This course has been vetted by First Year Programs to ensure first-term students can achieve success. The instructor will be available to assist students along the way.

CINE 305 Hip Hop on Screen

Arts & Letters (>1) | (>US) | Monday/Wednesday | 12:00-13:50 | 15974 | 4 Credits

Hip hop is an American-born, youth cultural movement with over 50 years developing its own form of dance, visual art, music/music production, and vocal expression (amongst many other things like language and fashion) that has gone from a subculture started by Black and Brown teenagers in the South Bronx, NYC in 1973 to a global, multi-billion dollar industry. This class uses documentaries to explore the histories and meanings (to its members) of hip hop cultural elements like graffiti writing or breakin’ to discuss them as cultural artifacts. We then will review how those aspects of the culture have been fictionally represented (and often misrepresented/exploited) by the visual industries from Hollywood to music video to video games and consider the cultural implications of these representations of the culture in respect to race, gender, and class identities.

ES 101 Introduction to Ethnic Studies

Social Science (>2) | (>US) | Monday/Wednesday | 10:00-11:20 | 12250 | 4 Credits

+Dis | Friday | 10:00-10:50 | 12251

This course is an introduction to the academic field of Ethnic Studies, the interdisciplinary, comparative and relational study of race, ethnicity and indigeneity in the United States. It surveys how the histories and experiences of people of color in America have been shaped by systems of domination, including but not limited to, white supremacy and white settler colonialism, capitalism and heteropatriarchy. Special attention is paid to how domination and acts/arts of resistance create and recreate racial subjects.