ASRC 4800 - [Black Queer Studies]

(crosslisted) FGSS 4801, LGBT 4800
(SBA-AS)

Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

Co-meets with ASRC 6800/FGSS 6801/LGBT 6800.

R. Snorton.

This course traces the genealogies and animating debates in black queer studies. Attentive to the relationship between black feminist criticism and black queer theory, this class proceeds with an understanding of gender and sexuality as intrinsic to the study of blackness in global contexts. Readings will include essays and books from Audre Lorde, E. Patrick Johnson, Christina Sharpe, Robert Reid Pharr, and others. Students will also engage popcultural texts, such as films, music videos, and novels to address the conjecture of blackness and sexuality in critical and vernacular discourse.