A survey of visual art produced by people of African descent in the United States with an emphasis on the twentieth century and its sociohistorical framework. Changes in modes of expression, formal concerns, pictorial themes, and the impact of the Black Arts movement, feminism, and Afrocentrism on art are explored, as well as the relationship of the work of black artists to art from West and Central Africa and the visual traditions of European and Euro-American artists. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 335K, 374F (Topic 19), Art History 344J, 366N (Topic: 20th-Cen African American Art). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.