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What if All Black People are Queer?

What if All Black People are Queer?. ETHN 4102/5102 Queering Black Studies Professor Kwame Holmes.

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What if All Black People are Queer?

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  1. What if All Black People are Queer? ETHN 4102/5102 Queering Black Studies Professor Kwame Holmes In this research seminar, we will engage queer theory, critical black studies and the African American experience from slavery to the present, to explore answers to this question.  On the way our course will delve into and through the following sub-themes: What political, economic and cultural institutions in the United States have been designed to sexually regulate black populations? What is the difference, if any, between “gay” and “queer?” How have black writers and political leaders dealt with the queer character of blackness?  This course explores the productive tensions between African American and Queer studies and, ultimately, reveals the way these fields have and must continue to speak to each other.  By the end of the semester, students will gain a powerful understanding of the centrality of sexuality to both the constitution of anti-black racism and the construction of African American identity and politics in the United States.

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