AAAS 651S · also GSF 651S
Black Queer Studies
Nikki Lane
Description from DukeHub
This course offers an introductory survey of Black Queer Studies. Beginning with a brief survey of foundational texts, we will discuss the range of emergent within the interdisciplinary body of work referred to as Black Queer Studies. We then explore a range of black queer pop cultural formations including film, ballroom culture, drag, poetry, fiction, and music. And finally discuss the theoretical and practical implications of applying queer theory to understand the lives and experiences of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals as well as black heterosexuals, frequently marked as being outside of normative frameworks of sexuality, and thus queer.
Skills
- writingdescription: "poetry" and 1 more
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethical"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 12 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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