LGBTQ, or LGBT Who? Race, Sexuality, and Community in 20th-century U.S. History (FYS)
AFAM 189F
Spring 2025
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: Queer Studies |
Beginning with the early-20th-century construction of the "homosexual" as a distinct identity, this course will explore the evolving, complex, and contested history of the queer community over the past century. The course will especially explore how race and gender frequently shaped marginalized yet resilient social movements for the lives, dignity, and rights of trans and other queer people of color, from the drag balls of a century ago through the Black Lives Matter movement. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AFAM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AFAM-MN)(AFAM) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
ALL READINGS WILL BE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY ON MOODLE.
We will read relatively short selections from the following books, among others, and engage with LGBT-themed films, TV shows, and other, written primary sources:
Avilez, GerShun, Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire (2020)
Bost, Darius, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (2018)
Hemphill, Essex, et. al., Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991)
Mumford, Kevin, Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (2016)
Schwarz, A.B. Christa, Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (2003)
Snorton, C. Riley, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017)
Somerville, Siobhan B., Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (200)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Attendance and participation, two short reading response papers, final project proposal and final project |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Nasta,Jesse Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: FISK302; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
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