AAST 365 The Black Queer South (3)

This course explores and examines black queer culture, history, and politics in the South. Southern black LGBT/queer life is frequently overlooked, understudied, and/or misrepresented in academia and popular culture. Therefore, this course employs the geographical place and conceptual space of “the South,” primarily the U.S. South but also making connections to an Afro-diasporic global South, to explore black queer possibilities-race, class, gender, and sexual struggle and resistance from “the bottom.” An interdisciplinary course, students will engage theoretical and empirical texts in black queer studies as well as visual and performance art, ranging from HBCU marching bands to hip-hop.
Course Frequency: Fall