Sensing Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Exploring Megan Thee Stallion. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

Beginning with Black popular culture as a framework, this course examines knowledge production as it manifests across Black women and femme hip-hop. This course focuses on Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion. We will attend to the conversations initiated through lyrics, tone, body parts, beats, and ad-libs. In exploring her career and the sociocultural factors that contributed to her rise, her struggles, and her successes, we trace Thee Stallion's professional journey as it moves across various topics, including but not limited to hip-hop feminism, gender, sexuality, and violence. Additionally, this course is also invested in the U.S. South as a vital location of Black cultural production for which Megan Thee Stallion comes to represent and is helping forge.