HIST 057B. History and the Digital Turn: Slavery and Resistance

Americans prefer to “study” history through film rather than scholarly works or primary source documents. What do Americans learn about the black past when feature films and Hollywood created fictional narratives are the source material? Students will screen and analyze work by black filmmakers whose art focuses on African American history.
Prerequisite: A HIST or BLST course at Swarthmore.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Migration, Diaspora, and Space; Domination and Resistance
Fall 2025. Mitchell.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history

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