Posted on 05/08/2023 10:11:08 AM PDT by ChipMarne
A University of Florida African American Studies course interprets the horror genre based on “racial identity and oppression” while using materials on “whiteness,” “black feminism,” and “queering personhood.”
The course, “Black Horror, White Terror,” explores “the relationship between horror and Black literary modes and traditions focusing on key moments that depict fears of Blackness and/or the terror associated with being Black in America,” according to a spring 2023 syllabus.
Students in the course must read classic works by 19th-century white authors to study how they have “affected racialized discourses.” These include Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and others.
Part of this inquiry includes reading an academic article titled, “The Power and Horror of Whiteness,” which argues that Poe was “haunted” by black people based on his fiction writings. The course includes two other resources with “whiteness” in the title.
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students in the course MUST READ ….. that won’t work.
most probably haven’t read a book.
They have taken idiocy to a new art form.
Quit posting your blog in the news forum. Post in the bloggers forum only.
-PJ
“queering personhood in the neo-slave narrative”
Some dipshit with an MA parlayed that word salad that means absolutely nothing into a PhD and tenured 6 figure a year gig of napping between having your grad students do your job and come up with their own bullshit to extort cash out of people that actually do stuff.
This thing needs a HARD reset.
Yes. Darkness is associated with horror. Because evil usually operates in darkness via hidden actions. This is why you turn lights on at night. It scares prowlers away. None of it has anything to do with skin color.
Reading the course curriculum for this Black Studies or any other DEI course is a horror story in and of itself.
That reminds me of a story: a friend of mine was checking into a motel and there was a small snake near their door. They called the front desk and the man said, “Yeah, that’s Steve. He won’t bother you.”
My friend replied “You don’t understand. We’re black.”
The guy came and moved the snake.
I guess that qualifies him as a "person of color."
Bkmk
And Jews. Lovecraft is a fair cop in this case. The guy was a genuine neurotic. It fed into that sense of dread in his work. It seems to have taken some abnormal psychology to do it. Brilliant stuff though.
People pay for this 💩. SMH
intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality...has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial...movements...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity...our aim will be to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality...are embodied and experienced." Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104.
- Actual source is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/
It seems it has become time, once again, to go fully segregated.
Chinese students also understand their country went through this kind of nonsense in the late 60s.
College professors? More like con-artists with a BS degree, the bovine kind.
Frankenstein took place in white Europe so how could it be racism against black people?
These professors need to be fired right away before the do more harm.
Let them teach their hate at the Al Sharpton School for Con-Artists and MARXIST Stooges. Sharpton would make a great Dean sin e he has decades of experience in those areas.
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