Spring 2024: LLC 750.01/CSST 492.01: Black Queer Studies
Instructor: Dr. Tanya Saunders - Wednesdays, 4:30 - 7:00PM
This graduate level course is a survey course of the scholarship and key debates in the emerging field of
Black Feminism and Black Queer Studies. We will take an intersectional approach in understanding how
race, sexuality, gender and coloniality affects our understanding of ourselves, and how we experience
social life through placing non-heteronormative Black and Latinx Queer subjects (not mutually exclusive)
at the center of our analyses. We will engage the social implications of the scientific study of sexuality. We
will do this by engaging key theoretical perspectives in the area of Black feminist and queer identities and
cultural politics from the African Continent and across the Diaspora in the Americas. Black feminist and
sexuality studies are large and broad fields of inquiry, therefore this course is not exhaustive. The goal of
the course is to give you a strong theoretical base from which you can think about Diaspora, race, gender,
sexuality and society. - Course open to upperclass undergraduates.
Posted: December 4, 2023, 2:15 PM
