Flawless/Formation/Freedom: Writing About Race, Gender and Popular Culture

4 credits · Undergraduate credit

This class is about creative nonfiction writing as cultural reportage. Focusing on reviews, profiles, editorials, and opinion pieces, we will use textual, cultural, and aesthetic analysis to understand how race, gender, and sexuality operate in such writing. Three songs by Beyonce- "Flawless," "Formation," and "Freedom" -introduce the course's engagement with race, gender, and popular culture.