Black Art/Brown Art will focus on visual art made by contemporary African American, Mexican American and Latino artists. Students will consider artists’ relationships to issues of difference, including but not limited to gender, ‘identity politics’ and ‘post-identity.’ In addition, students will think about whether the artists engage in transnational dialogues with the cultures of their ancestors. Attention will be paid to exhibitions, such as “Phantom Sightings” and “Freestyle,” that seek to (re)define the parameters of contemporary ‘ethnic’ art. We will study Rashid Johnson, Juan Capistran, Michael Ray Charles, Kara Walker, Pepon Osorio, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz, and Enrique Chagoya among other artists.