Critical Social Inquiry 0278 - Queer Feelings: The Affective Politics of Race, Feminism, and Queerness

In the last decade, queer scholars have turned away from the study of identity and textuality to consider the role of affect and emotion in the production, circulation, and regulation of sexuality, race, and gender. This course examines a new body of work in queer studies, feminist studies, and sexuality studies that explores emotion and affect as central to the operation of social, political, and economic power. Topics will include mental illness, hormones, happiness, sex, trauma, labor, identity, and social movements, among others. Students will work to consider how emotions and affect are connected to larger systems of power like capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, terrorism and war, the prison, the media, and medicine. Queer, Feminism, Race, Affect,

In/Justice To take this course, students should have taken a course concerning race, gender, or sexuality. Students should generally expect to spend 6 hours a week on work outisde of class.