Studies in Literary Theory & Criticism (481-0-21)

Topic

Theorizing Black Genders and Sexualities

Instructors

Marquis Bey

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 301: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

In this course, rather than simply discussing black people who fall under a marginalized gender or sexual category—black gay men and lesbians; black transgender people—we will be taking a different, more radical direction. This course will be one that concerns how blackness as a historical, philosophical, poetic force troubles the limits of gender and sexuality such that those terms are rendered inoperable and radically otherwise. Theorizing Black Genders and Sexualities, thus, reckons with what genders and sexualities are and mean, in the context of blackness and outside of or adjacent to that context, and how we might undermine, critique, interrogate, depart from, move within, or imagine outside of entirely these categorizations that are ultimately, as this course will show, regimes of whiteness, normativity, and hegemony.

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: REASON: Pre-registration is not allowed for this class. Please try again during regular registration.
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