CSP 19 Racial Crossings in 20th Century Hollywood

In this course, we will investigate how Hollywood movies from the Silent Era to the end of the century reveal both entrenched and changing attitudes to race and ethnicity. We will explore stereotypes, gender ideas, presentations of whiteness, interracial romance, and immigration history. Our goal is to increase writing skills, while gaining literacy about the power of Hollywood to shape, or break images of the ethnic and raced other in America.