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AMST0208A-F17

Black Womanhood/Pop. Culture

Unruly Bodies: Black Womanhood in Popular Culture
In this course we will examine representations of black womanhood in popular culture, analyzing the processes by which bodies and identities are constructed as dangerous, deviant, and unruly. For example, materials will include the work of bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins to analyze the imagery of black womanhood propagated by the television shows The Jerry Springer Show and Bad Girls Club. By contrast, we will also read Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection as a lens through which to view “bad” black womanhood as a radically stylized means of redress in the Blaxploitation-era film Foxy Brown. (Critical Race Feminisms) 3 hrs. lect.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
92006
Subject Code:
AMST
Course Number:
0208
Section Identifier:
A

Course

AMST 0208

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Fall 2017

AMST0208A-F17 Lecture (Finley)