Black Sexuality

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This class will introduce students to social and political constructions of race and sexuality, while also charting how black representations and constructions of genders and sexualities in popular culture of Black people in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, and the Caribbean have addressed the sexual violence, medical exploitation and apartheid, and sexual colonization of Eurocentric ideals of sexuality and eroticism rooted in racism, capitalism, and erotophobia.