This course offers an introductory survey of Black Queer Studies. Beginning with a brief survey of foundational texts, we will discuss the range of emergent within the interdisciplinary body of work referred to as Black Queer Studies. We then explore a range of black queer pop cultural formations including film, ballroom culture, drag, poetry, fiction, and music. And finally discuss the theoretical and practical implications of applying queer theory to understand the lives and experiences of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals as well as black heterosexuals, frequently marked as being outside of normative frameworks of sexuality, and thus queer.
