Students will visit the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see the exhibit “Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art.,” This exhibit ends a larger one (“From Africa to America: Picasso Face to Face, Past and Present”), which includes works by contemporary artists of African descent (including one by Kehinde Wiley, the artist who created President Obama’s official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery). Students will therefore have the opportunity to see these important works as well. This activity is designed to complement my Literary Themes course,”America”, a major focus of which is anti-black racism in the USA, by offering local perspective to enrich understanding and complicate the idea that Canada is a racism-free haven.