IN PHOTOS: Peck School students among the first to experience new study abroad course examining the arts of resistance and resilience across the Black Diaspora

From Peck School of the Arts: “Thirteen students from across UWM signed up for a pilot study abroad experience developed by Associate Professors Portia Cobb (Film, Video, Animation and New Genres) and Dr. David Pate (Social Work). The two-week study abroad course, Global Studies Black Lives Matter: A Comparative Global Study in the U.K., sought to examine the historical, geographical, cultural, social, and political ways in which race is configured and deployed in the United States and the UK in the past and present. The immersive curriculum centered on the arts of resistance and resilience across the Black Diaspora, Black Britain and the economics of the transatlantic slave trade, colonial and imperial histories, and the origins of race and racism. Two film students were among the participants. These photos capture their experience.”

Please see below for the full piece. AADS minor Kiarra Jernagin is included in the photo spread, captioning her photo: “This is me at the Tower Bridge on our first tour in London.”