Conference by Marc Silberman
Multiculturalism and Identity Policies in American Art Culture and Literature
This research area provides an interdisciplinary look at the study of social class, gender, and race in the artistic and cultural production of the United States. This area includes the representation and analysis of the social processes related to identity creation, to difference and inequality, to dominant and subordinate aesthetics, to politics of memory and commemoration, and to the role of art as a tool for social change. To address this interdisciplinary area, the methodology used is developped within an intersectional framework, including the concepts of race, ethnicity, and social class, as well as feminist and LGTBIQ community-related studies. The research field pays attention to the production/creation of literature and art, history, visual arts and cinematography, political sciences and sociology, anthropology, and philosophy.
