AAAS 81.11 Sensing Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Exploring Megan Thee Stallion

In this moment, characterized by the prominence of Black Southern women and femmes in hip-hop, conversations regarding race, gender, and sexuality have shaped Black popular culture’s landscape in both fruitful and reductive ways. One could argue that since 2020, Black femme hip-hop – in its music, aesthetics, performance, and celebrity culture – has created avenues through which to explore topics such as misogynoir, femme embodiment, political critique, violence, and hip-hop’s evolving legacy, on a collective scale. Beginning with Black popular culture as a framework, this course examines knowledge production as it manifests across Black women and femme hip-hop. And with a focus on Houston rapper, Megan Thee Stallion, we will attend to the conversations initiated through lyrics, tone, body parts, beefs and adlibs.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC; WCult:CI

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Department-Specific Course Categories

African and African-American Studies