AFRICANA STUDIES 273c - Queer Race

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Bowdoin College

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Fall 2006. MARK FOSTER. Contemporary critics have argued that late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century understandings of same-sex desiring identities acquired early visibility through self-conscious analogies to racial categorization, i.e., a homosexual is like a mixed-race person: s/he is half one thing and half another. Such beliefs continue to endure to the present day. One of its legacies is the belief that struggles against racial oppression and sexual oppression are mutually exclusive. Uses close readings of both popular and lesser known lesbigay/ transgendered narratives of the era to explore the cultural and theoretical implications of these beliefs, as well as the challenges they have sometimes presented to conceptualizing and implementing radical social change. Possible authors/texts include Radclyffe Hall, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Ann Bannon, Rita Mae Brown, Ann Allen Shockley, Patricia Nell Warren, Leslie Feinberg, James Earl Hardy, E. Lynn Harris, Audre Lorde, Take Me Out: A Play, M Butterfly, and Noah's Arc. (Same as English 273 and Gender and Women's Studies205.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English, Africana Studies, or Gender and Women's Studies. Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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