LIT 5309 Spring 2022 McGregory
Spring
2022
LIT 5309
Studies in Popular Culture: African American Women, Folklore, and Sexualities
Jerrilyn McGregory
This course interrogates the expressive and artistic realms of African American (AFAM) women in relation to questions of politics, power, resistance, and creativity. In the context of Africana women, topics will include: trickster-troping; the cult of respectability; and radical gender subjectivities as relates to blues women; female desire; hip-hop culture, neo-soul, comediennes, and Black feminisms.
Requirements: The course satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Area(s) of Concentration: African-American Literary, Folklore, and Cultural Studies; and Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. This course also meets the Alterity requirement.