Black Queer Theories

Catalog description

This course will familiarize students with key texts and debates within the field of Black Queer Studies from various theoretical, literary, historical, and multi-media perspectives. As a driving question, this course asks: What is the relationship between Blackness and queerness? How have Black people theorized the two? Where do Black queer theories happen, and who gets recognized as producing them? How do we recover Black queer history? Satisfies Africana Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Social and Scientific Thought requirement. Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement.