Africana Studies 220 - Colloquium: Black Joy

This course considers the possibilities, pleasures, and politics of joy with particular attention to Black interiority and worldmaking. By examining a diverse range of cultural representations, literature, music, film, and scholarly works from the 18th century through the present day, the course explores how people of African descent in the United States and across the diaspora have grappled with, redefined, and practiced joy in societies shaped by chattel slavery, coloniality, antiblackness and intersectional hierarchies of power. Cannot be taken S/U. Enrollment limited to 25.