Create a 2-3 page :
Trace some of the major contributions of an ethnic or “minority” group to U.S. culture, for example, to music, the arts, dance, or theater. There are many other possibilities! Develop your composition based on an area of interest to you in the arts.
For additional details, please refer to the Short Paper Rubric document.
Feel free to use these:
Reading and Resources
Video: Thelma Golden: How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change (12:21)
In this TED Talk, Thelma Golden discusses cultural change in America and how art contributes to this change.
Library Article: The Marketing of Duke Ellington: Setting the Strategy for an African American Maestro
This article discusses how Duke Ellington was marketed during a time when many African American artists were not accepted into the mainstream art scene.
Library Article: Latinizing Culture: Art, Museums, and the Politics of U.S. Multicultural Encompassment
This article discusses the influence of Latin culture on the United States.
Library Article: Race and Art: Prices for African American Painters and Their Contemporaries
This article discusses the gap in the selling prices for art by African American painters and their contemporaries.
For additional details, refer to the Short Paper/Case Study Rubric document in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course.
APA Guidelines Required (Title Page, Abstract, Running Head and properly cited references). Questions, see the Purdue Owl website https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Sources should be cited with APA format.