Black Fandoms

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

What are you a fan of and how are you a fan of it? This course will integrate popular culture, media, and studying fans to examine how Black fans encounter and engage with their fandom objects. This course will critically engage historical Black fandoms and how they have evolved through situated Black Studies theories and critical interventions in studying Black participatory culture, cult media, and audience analysis. This course will provide students with critical media literacy skills that interrogate production, popularity, and consumption practices based on resonance and emotion. Further, we will deconstruct the debates on Black representation in the contemporary media moment.