Frantz Fanon, Post-Colonial Theory and Contemporary Art in the United States

• Week 6

How do we address questions of the first world hegemony in a national-racial formation like the United States? Aim of the discussions is to encourage students to talk about racism in terms of their everyday life. What does it have to do with you? How does it concern you?

Slide Presentation:
Projects by Adrian Piper "Catalysis IV", "A Reactive Guerrilla Performance for Dinners and Cocktail Parties", Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez Pena

Required Reading:
Frantz Fanon "The Fact of Blackness" in Black Skin White Masks (New York: Grove, 1991)

Suggested Reading:
Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994)

Richard Dreyer, White (New York: Routledge, 1997)

Alan Read, ed., The Fact of Blackness Frantz Fanon & Visual Representation (Seattle: Bay Press, 1996)

Video:
Isaac Julian "Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks" (1995)

Group project
We visit the site, and research projects are assigned.