Latinx and Caribbean Sexual Cultures
AMST 230
Spring 2027
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This interdisciplinary seminar explores historical and contemporary Latinx/Chicanx & Caribbean sexual cultures. Through a deep engagement with various texts and media (readings, films, visual art, aesthetic archives, print culture, music and performance), we will critically attend to the ways the mutually constitutive categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship, among others, coalesce in the social and cultural representation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century US Latinx and Caribbean histories and geographies. As a class, we will consider how the terms "Latino/a/x," "Chicano/a/x," and "Caribbean" are historically and continually racialized, gendered, and sexualized within the US nation-state. Key topics include respectability and identity politics; mestizaje and colorism; sexual and gender-based violence; nationalism and social movements; sex work; HIV/AIDS; machismo and feminism; aesthetics, self-fashioning, and performance; transness, queerness; the pornographic and "the erotic." |
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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: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sample readings may include Audre Lorde, ¿Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power¿; Jillian Hernández, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment; Juana Rodríguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings; Francisco J. Galarte, Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies; Marcos Gonsalez, Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture; Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. Los Angeles: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, 2017.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class participation, short writing assignments, midterm essay, final project. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course will be taught by incoming faculty member Gregoria Rosa Olson |
Instructor(s): STAFF
Times: ..T.R.. 10:20AM-11:40AM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 12 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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