Afro-American Studies 242 - DEATH & DYING IN BLACK CULTURE

Using a cultural studies perspective, this course will look at the distinction between and representational meanings of death and dying in Black culture. The course will explore how representations of death and dying manifest in various historical periods and cultural forms. It will also consider how gender, nationalism, sexuality, class and religion impact the discourse of death and dying. Finally and necessarily, we will consider death and dying's not-too-distant relatives; memory, agency, loss, love. Not open to first-year students.

Not open to first-years