Black Queer Ecologies 

AF AMER C268 - Black Queer Ecologies 

<p>Seminar, four hours. Introduction to Black queer ecologies, which considers ways in which Blackness and queerness are produced, reproduced, experienced, and mobilized through interplay of human nature dynamics, ecological processes, and more-than-human relations. Exploration of interconnected nature of Black queer life to struggle, space, and practice of liberation especially mounted by Black rebels and nonconforming people against oppression linked to culture, nationhood, cisheteropatriarchy, class, and social structure. Study centers chaos, wildness, and blasphemy expressed by Black queer writers, cultural workers, and intellectuals from African diaspora and continent. Focus on those who create freedom spaces and offer alternative perspectives on current social, political, and ecological realities. Study is structured around three primary themes: Black queer theoretical and methodological frameworks; Black queer experiences of capitalism, white supremacy, nature, and culture; and Black queer activism and resistance. Exploration of themes through combination of discussion, media, and text. Concurrently scheduled with course C268. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

African American Studies

College of Letters and Science

AF AMER C168 - Black Queer Ecologies 

Analyze various writings related to the complex ways that Black queer communities define freedom, create spaces of liberation, and navigate/resist dominant class, capitalist, imperialist, cultural, cis-hetero-patriarchal and white supremacist structures.

Develop critical thinking, language, and research skills around the interconnectedness of Black life, queer cosmologies, place/space and social/ecological relations and their implications for everyday struggles, experiences and the flight for liberation.

Describe the role that race, class, gender, sexual(ity) orientation, and other forms of dominance play in Black queer communities’ relationship to nature/place, to self and community, and ecological phenomena and systems.

Evaluate Black queer expression in relation to social and political norms/structures, agency, culture, the environment and practices of liberation.

General Catalog

Black Queer Ecologies

AF AMER C168

4 units