LALS 180 - Border(s): Visually Representing Human Rights and Personhood

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

In this six-week intensive, we study a set of documentary films about statelessness, migration, and labor in the Dominican Republic made between 2007 and 2020. The films are site to examine how and when human rights representations and critical theories of race and racialization overlap, are in dialogue and/or in tension, and sometimes miss each other completely. With an eye toward how knowledge is produced and circulated, we study tensions, convergences, and possibilities otherwise—along national borders and knowledge borders—specifically as they pertain to visual representations of Hispaniola (the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Light Carruyo.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

Second six-week course.

One 3-hour period.

Course Format: INT