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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
More stupidity looking for things that don’t exist
So, what is the Caucasian American studies up to these days I wonder. 🤔
Ok, Mr. Sasse, what are you going to do about this?
Hmmm.....I always thought Poe was haunted by the red death—tuberculosis. Don’t remember any black people. Black raven, yes.
Mental. It’t no wonder these people fail at reality and generally suck at life.
Sounds great. Just wondering how many jobs are lined up for the students that take this class...
I would DEFINITELY focus on an 1818 novel by a British woman. I mean, there are no Americans and no blacks in it, so it's perfect and can represent any fantasy the warped mind of a modern college professor can come up with.
I doubt Mary Shelley ever interacted with a black man.
Given Frankenstein was (loosely) based on the real (and very mad scientist) Baron Johann Dippel von Frankenstein and combined with European Jewish folktales of a golem gone mad, both of which had zero interaction with blacks, I find this particularly far fetched.
I thought Frankenstein was green.
"The Masque of the Red Death" clearly describes the symptoms of the eponymous "Red Death."
Quite unlike Tuberculosis!
Regards,
-PJ
These days, people pay big bucks to go to college and become stupid.
How does the professor explain Moby Dick, the great white whale?
Yea...sometimes people just write stories.
They should examine all those anti-white TV ads where blacks pretend to be white ,LOL
Never in my life have I heard any white person talk about Frankenstein in a racial context. The story is about the dangers of scientific experimentation that crosses certain boundaries. Come to think of it, it might have some relevance to the transgender controversy.
I am OFFENDED and am in HORROR of rap music lyrics so let’s “do away with” the songs or change the words to make them acceptable.
Wonder if they’ll cover Blackula.
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