Vision & Justice: Photography, Race, and Power

Friday, March 24, 2017 6:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThis 3 part course will focus on the crucial interplay of art, justice, and the contestation for citizenship in a radicalized America, from Civil War to the Black Lives Matter Movement, from WWI to the Muslim Ban.    Inspired by Frederick Douglass’s ideas about the role of images for American progress, topics will include: the role of aesthetics for the invention of race, the abolition of transatlantic slavery,