CSP 11 Hollywood Represent/Race & Eth

In this course, we will investigate how Hollywood movies from the Silent Era to the start of the 21st Century reveal both entrenched and changing attitudes to race and ethnicity. We will explore Hollywood presentations of whiteness, passing for white, interracial romance, and gender. Our goal is to learn some cinematic history and gain literacy about the power of film to shape, or break images of the ethnic and raced other in America.