Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
New Directions in Twenty-First Century Black Studies
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC7904401
Course number integer
7904
Meeting times
W 5:15 PM-8:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Margo N. Crawford
Description
This course explores contemporary Black thought through a set of literary, visual, and theoretical texts. Our theoretical repertoire will include concepts like love, quiet, fabulation, and gaze to explore Black interiority in relation to political movements, aesthetic experimentation, gender and sexual identity, and African continental and diasporic practices. The course will draw on a range of genres (including films, photo portraits, personal essays, and criticism) and also take a comparative approach (including works from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States). See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a complete description of the current offerings.
Course number only
7904
Cross listings
COML7904401, ENGL7904401, GSWS7904401
Use local description
No