Humanities Homework Help

The reading is broken down to short fiction

Weld Grimke, Dunbar-Nelson, Hughes, and Nugent and essays from Black Queer Studies on Black queer identity, citizenship, and the role of Black queer studies. All the texts can be searches and found online

identify 1-2 themes in 1-2 fictional texts AND theoretical framework in at least one of the essays that relates to the text you identify. What questions do the essays pose in response to the perspectives in the literature? How might these questions be answered? 300-500 words

http://gomag.com/article/queer-women-history-forgot-alice-dunbar-nelson/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWoDuNGU088 site.)

Langston Hughes: “Blessed Assurance,” 56 OR “Seven People Dancing” (New Yorker)

Richard Bruce Nugent: “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” 73

selections, Black Queer Studies

introduction: “Queering Black Studies/’Quaring’ Queer Studies”(Johnson and Henderson, 1)

“Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity” (Ferguson, 52)

“‘Quare’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I learned from My Grandmother” (Johnson, 124)