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QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUE

GEN&WS 446
Course Description

An examination of the emergent theoretical field of queer of color critique, a mode of analysis grounded in the struggles and world-making of LGBTQ people of color. Activists, artists, and theorists have mobilized queer of color critique to interrogate the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and diaspora as a response to the inherent whiteness of mainstream queer theory and persistent heterosexism in ethnic studies. Examines the development of queer of color critique (primarily in the United States) through both academic and activist domains; consider what queer theory has to say about empire, citizenship, prisons, welfare, neoliberalism, and terrorism; and articulate the role of queer of color analysis in a vision for racial, gender, sexual, and economic justice.

Prerequisties

Sophomore standing

Satisfies
Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
4

5.69% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

No change from Historical

A Rate
100%

47.73% from Historical

Class Size
17

-21.54% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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