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The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational Resources (OER) to facilitate equitable access to their students’ course materials.   This faculty showcase about Art in the Americas represent Open Educational Practices where faculty are sharing their "know-how" for adopting OER in their courses.  

This upper-division course examines the ways in which decolonial theories and methodologies have impacted and shaped radical contemporary artistic practices and discourses in the Americas. Acknowledging the origins of traditional colonial rule in the 16th century with the so-called “discovery” of the Americas and its conceptual continuity in the 19th century following independence revolutions in the region, the periodization of this course commences in the mid 20th century, coinciding with massive decolonial struggles developed from the Caribbean by writers and activists including Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon. Divided into four sections, this course explores decolonial theories in relation to art historical discourses and practices that question modernity’s imperatives regarding issues of race, gender, sexuality, time, space, and the discipline of art history itself. Throughout the term, we will read a range of texts and think about them by looking at, and reflecting on, images, performances, sites, exhibitions, films, and art historiographies from a transdisciplinary lens that, in the words of Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “involves the de-investment from modern forms of validation and a commitment to forging values, practices, and forms of relation with others that can bring about a different order.”

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