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VISST-2000-22: Media History: Constructing Identity: Textiles, Indigeneity, and Resistance

Spring 2020

Subject: Visual Studies
Type: Lecture
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: Oakland
Course Dates: January 21, 2020 — May 08, 2020
Meetings: Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B5
Instructor: Deborah Valoma

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 2/5

Description:

As indigenous communities contend with the continuing social and economic consequences of nineteenth-century colonization and navigate current global production schemes, textile traditions have changed from forms of physical survival, artistic expression, and spiritual intervention to vehicles for constructing identity and preserving culture. This course examines historical and contemporary textile practices of adaptation and resistance, such as African printed cloth, the basketry tradition of native California, and Gandhi’s use of hand-spun cloth in the fight for Indian independence. Readings and lectures highlight the perseverance of traditional artists and cultural continuity, appropriation and shifting definitions of "authenticity," and the social and political role of textiles in indigenous culture reclamation movements.

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