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Gender and Black Masculinity (334-0-20)

Instructors

Marquis Bey West

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-425: Mon, Wed 11:00AM - 12:20PM

Overview of class

This course will take as its focus not only discussing black men but, more rigorously, interrogating gender as a racialized regime and masculinity itself as a subtle form of violence. Students will be invited to think about race and gender as co-constitutive (rather than simply and innocently intersectional), and about what might be possible after the interrogation—and possibly dismantling—of masculinity even when affixed to blackness. To examine these topics, we will explore the writing of Richard Wright and Percival Everett, documentaries on manhood, black feminist critiques of masculinity, and transgender perspectives on gender.

Class Attributes

Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area