Sexuality and Race in Early/Modernity

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Explores histories of sex, sexuality, and race in performance. With a focus on historical contexts of empire, global economies of trade, travels and discoveries, conversions, and slavery, the course aims to recognize genealogies of contemporary intersections of sexuality/race, revealing continuities, ruptures, and crossings between discourses and practices as they emerge in performance in the past and present. Pushing temporal and disciplinary boundaries, the seminar investigates directions and inquiries in early modern sexuality studies, race studies, queer theory, and performance studies.