Global Queer Studies
AMST 233
Spring 2023 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
ANTH 233, FGSS 233 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Queer Studies |
This course explores global experiences of LGBT/Q life, bringing an explicitly transnational lens to a field too often dominated by U.S.-centered perspectives.
Drawing on queer ethnography and film, we will explore the contours of queer and trans life around the globe, from the lives of gay men in Indonesia to Muslim yan daudu in Nigeria, gay tourism in post-Revolutionary Cuba, queer mati work among working-class Afro-Surinamese women, lesbian activism in India, LGBT asylum claims in Canada, the queer art of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, the everyday lives of lalas (lesbians) in China, and and the transnational lives of Filipino gay men in New York. Our aim is to challenge and expand Western categories and concepts of sexuality, gender, identity, and desire (both hetero- and homo-normative) and to center the ways sexual/gendered identities, cultures, and politics are shaped by colonialism, imperialism, racialization, migration, transnational media, and global capitalism. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(ANTH)(STS) |
Major Readings:
TBD, potential readings include Ana-Maurine Lara, STREETWALKING: LGBTQ LIVES AND PROTEST IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; Jafari Allen, THERE¿S A DISCO BALL BETWEEN US: A THEORY OF BLACK GAY LIFE; Noelle Stout, AFTER LOVE: QUEER INTIMACY AND EROTIC ECONOMIES IN POST-SOVIET CUBA; Gloria Wekker, THE POLITICS OF PASSION: WOMEN'S SEXUAL CULTURE IN THE AFRO- SURINAMESE DIASPORA; Rudi Gaudio, ALLAH MADE US: SEXUAL OUTLAWS IN AN ISLAMIC AFRICAN CITY; Scott Lauria Morgensen, SPACES BETWEEN US: QUEER SETTLER COLONIALISM AND INDIGENOUS DECOLONIZATION; David A. B. Murray, REAL QUEER? SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY REFUGEES IN THE CANADIAN REFUGEE APPARATUS; Elisabeth Engebretsen, QUEER WOMEN IN URBAN CHINA; Naisargi Dave, QUEER ACTIVISM IN INDIA; George Paul Meiu, ETHNO-EROTIC ECONOMIES: SEXUALITY, MONEY, AND BELONGING IN KENYA; María-Amelia Viteri, DESBORDES TRANSLATING RACIAL, ETHNIC, SEXUAL, AND GENDER IDENTITIES ACROSS THE AMERICAS; Lyndon K. Gill, EROTIC ISLANDS: ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE QUEER CARIBBEAN; Tom Boellstorff, THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO: SEXUALITY AND THE NATION IN INDONESIA; Martin Manalansan, GLOBAL DIVAS: FILIPINO GAY MEN IN THE DIASPORA; Carlos Ulises Decena, TACIT SUBJECTS: BELONGING AND SAME-SEX DESIRE AMONG DOMINICAN IMMIGRANT MEN; and articles by Oye¿ro¿nke¿ Oye¿wu¿mi¿, Jasbir Puar, Jenny Davis, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Shaka McGlotten, David Valentine, Keguro Macharia, Debanuj DasGupta, Sara Ahmed, Lucinda Ramberg, Gayatri Gopinath
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class presentation, reading memos, short essays, final paper or project |
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