Race, Gender, and Sexuality (382-0-1)

Topic

Black Queer Diaspora

Instructors

LaShandra Sullivan

Meeting Info

ANTHRO Sem Rm B07 - 1810 Hinmn: Thurs 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course focuses on LGBTQ+ cultures and lifeways across the Black Diaspora. Through ethnography, cinema, historiography, music, photography, podcasts, performance studies, and other scholarly, artistic, and cultural forms, we explore both interlinked and locally variant sexual cultures across the Americas, Africa, and Europe. The course queries the creativity and variety with which Black LGBTQ+ people have been shaped by and continuously reshape histories of movements and migrations, while also confronting often oppressive norms of race, gender, and sexuality. These studies include political, social, and cultural movements within and across national boundaries. Moreover, we interrogate how conceptions of race, gender, sex, and sexuality shift across time and space, as well as get reworked by Black social actors in myriad political and economic milieus towards notions of freedom and flourishing.

Class Materials (Required)

in Canvas

Class Attributes

Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area