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

← 2024-25 2025-26

Units: 4

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

Catalog page 180

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 SFCS 123.

Derived Information — The following is not part of the official catalog but is computed from catalog data.
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