CSP 27 Hollywood Representations of Race and Ethnicity

The focus of this course is an investigation of how Hollywood film from the silent era to the start of the 21st century reveals both entrenched and changing American attitudes to race and ethnicity.   We will explore Hollywood presentations of whiteness, passing for white, interracial romance, and gender.  Our goal is to learn the cinematic history and gain literacy about the power of film to create, shape, or break images of the ethnic and raced other in America.