American Studies 340 - Symposium in American Studies: Queer of Color Critique

Topics course. Limited to AMS majors: This AMS seminar investigates genealogies of feminist / queer of color theorizing, focusing on queer of color critique. This critical methodology provides; incisive analysis of American systems of racism, sexism, heterosexism (including binary gender), ableism, settler-colonialism, classism; and creative interventions towards justice. Readings include both the latest scholarship (e.g. Gossett, Gumbs) and key foundational texts (Ferguson, Hong, Reddy, Davis). Students will be encouraged to identify specific interventions that queer of color critique offers to their focus in American Studies. The course also considers the overlaps and disjunctures between queer of color critique, two-spirit critique, and queer diasporic critique.

Instructor Permission. Limited to AMS majors Limited to seniors