Black Sexual Geographies

Catalog description

This course will examine the social construction of Black sexuality as it relates to geography in the U.S. context and beyond, with specific emphasis on the ways in which space and place shape understandings of Black identity, culture, homemaking, belonging, self-governance, politics, and resistance. Pointedly, we will ask: how and where does Black sexuality take place and shape; what geographies foster Black sexual identity development; and what happens to our understandings of geography when we put Black sexuality at the center of analysis? Students will develop a richer understanding of how racialized sexual deviance and difference are managed through spatial terms and practices as well as the ways that Black people have (re)claimed and reimagined space and place through the analytics of sex and sexuality. Satisfies Africana Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.