Queerness of Color: The crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and political boundaries

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This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience.