"Disidentifications": Racial Performance Studies
AMST 330
Spring 2027
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01
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| Crosslisting:
THEA 330 |
This seminar immerses students in the worlds of racial performance studies. Drawing from the work of (QT)BIPOC performance studies scholars and artists, we will collectively attend to the politics of performing race, gender, and sexuality, both onstage and in the everyday. While critically engaging an array of material (readings, films, photography, plays, social media), we will consider the following: What does a focus on performance and embodiment reveal about the histories of people of color and trans/queer people within the United States? What other worlds are (QT)BIPOC performers making -- what alternative "futures" do their "gestures" carry? Key topics include performance, self-fashioning, and theater; race and racism; sex, sexuality, and homophobia/transphobia; the nation-state and citizenship; identity politics; the public sphere and queer of color spaces; HIV/AIDS; disability; art and activism; colonialism and sexual liberation. |
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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 Juana María Rodríguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings; José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics and The Sense of Brown; Joshua Chambers-Letson, After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life; Tavia Nyong¿o, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life; Ricardo A. Bracho, Puto (Plays).
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class participation, short writing assignments, midterm project, final paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course will be taught by incoming faculty member Gregoria Rosa Olson |
Instructor(s): STAFF
Times: ..T.... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 12 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
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