The iconography of the U.S. resides at times in images of our neighboring Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood sign,Yosemite,New York City. Or perhaps in institutions and movements, like the Rainbow Flag, Black Lives Matter, Dakota Pipeline Protest,and the Women's March on Washington. What,then, is America? The course will look into-and beyond-icons,to communities.Our texts will be the arts: sculpture,textiles,photography, documentary video and film, fiction, memoir, poetry, and comics.Our subjects will help us explore the intersections of privilege and power,relationships among race,class, gender and sexuality,age and abledness in the beginning of the 21stcentury.In the end,writing one's own history into the community reveals and contests our threads of connection to the ideaof America.

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