Gender Studies 333RA - Queering Race, Racing Queer

This course will examine what queer studies scholarship can teach us about the social construction of race in the United States. To do so, the course will provide an introduction to queer of color critique and other queer studies scholarship that centrally engages questions of race, exploring this dynamic field including its origins in women of color feminism, foundational texts, and recent scholarship. The course will also examine what is meant by queer critique by examining scholarship that puts queer critique into practice through reading different sites of race-making, with the goal of students learning how to deploy their own queer readings.

Prereq: Gender Studies 101.