In this course, we contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of queer and transgender lives. Instead, we will engage with scholars, activists, artists in queer and trans cultures and political movements to advance equity. We examine queerness and transgender as a categories, processes, a social assemblage, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Topics explored can be the cultural production of queer and trans communities, critiques of political economy, trans futures, racism, transphobia, intersectionality and the problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level seminars deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational and intersectional approaches for producing knowledge about resistance, power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’ studies, border studies, cultural studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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