Latin American Studies 301ql - Seminar: Topics in Latin American Studies-Queer Latine Sexualities: Performance, Race and Culture

Sem:T-Queer Latine

Spring
2024
01
4.00
Vicente Carrillo

TU 1:20 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
LAS-301ql-01-202403
Hatfield 105
vcarrillo@smith.edu
What modes of resistance do queer and trans bodies of color deploy to navigate an anti-queer/trans world? What lessons do bodies offer? This course focuses on queer and trans representation in cultural production, performance studies approach to queer Latine research and the importance of embodied knowledges. The course addresses topics around affect, desire, queer nightlife, anti-queer/trans moral panics and public space. Students become familiar with scholarship in the growing field of queer Latine studies while developing a stronger critical analytic on how race, class, sexuality and gender inform the reading of bodies. Not open to students who took LAS 201ql. Enrollment limited to 20. Juniors and seniors only. Instructor permission required. (E)

[CE] JR/SR only

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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