Queer of Color Critique
AMST 351
Spring 2015
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 351 |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
We will will examine and interrogate the field of queer studies with particular focus on the ways in which queer scholarship and queer political movements function alongside critical race theory, ethnic studies, and sociopolitical antiracist efforts. Students will be asked to consider the history of queer studies and queer politics, the contemporary state of queer movements, and future visions of queer life. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, and we will rely upon a diverse range of theoretical, historical, and cultural studies texts. We will explore the normative parameters of both sexual and racial identities, probing the terms of identification to consider their meaning in the contemporary moment and in relationship to various cultural, social, legal, and political milieus. Throughout the course we will consider, What does it mean to study queerness and to study race? How do institutions, religious, legal, scientific, shape our understandings of both queer and racial identities? In what ways do sexuality and race interact, and how does this interaction inform the meanings of each of these identity categories? Furthermore, how have queer movement and scholarship both supported antiracist efforts and also how have they been complicit in cultural and institutional forms of racial oppression? How do other social categories of identification such as gender, ethnicity, class, etc., shape the ways in which we understand expressions of race and queerness? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(CSCT)(STS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Texts Will Include:
Jose Munoz, DISIDENTIFICATIONS: QUEERS OF COLOR AND THE PERFORMANCE OF POLITICS
Roderick Ferguson, ABERRATIONS IN BLACK: TOWARD A QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUE
Jasbir Puar, TERRORIST ASSEMBLEGES: HOMONATIONALISM IN QUEER TIMES
Cherrie Moraga, XICANA CODEX
E. Patrick Johnson, BLACK QUEER STUDIES: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY
Gloria Anzaldua and Analousie Keating, THIS BRIDGE WE CALL HOME: RADICAL VISIONS FOR TRANSFORMATION
Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER
Gloria Anzaldua, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA
Siobhan Somerville, QUEERING THE COLOR LINE: RACE AND THE INVENTION OF HOMOSEXUALTIY IN AMERICAN CULTURE
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Examinations and Assignments:
Each student will take responsibility for introducing and leading one class discussion. Written work includes a midterm paper and a final research paper. |
| Instructor(s): Grappo,Laura Times: ....R.. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK101; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
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