Black Queer Diasporas

This course serves as an introduction to critical theories of race, gender, and sexuality across selected sites in the African diaspora and on the African continent. We will begin the semester with some broad theoretical considerations about Black queer and trans lives and then we will discuss critical writings and analyze literary texts, films, and musical practices about Black queerness and transness in order to understand the complex ways Blackness and shapes marginalized genders and sexualities across the globe.