SFCS 123: Reclaiming the Dark: Black Life Is Speculative Fiction

← 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 →

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; activity, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour

Catalog page 617

Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor

Description: Explores alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in, around, and through Black life and culture. Covers writers, artists, and activists such as Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Cedric Robinson, the Combahee River Collective, N. K. Jemisin, Adrienne Maree Brown, Kevin Quashie, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with BLKS 123.

Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Combined: BLKS 123 / SFCS 123
Year F W S Su Total
2025-26 3/30 3/30
2024-25 5/15 5/15