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Queer of Color Critique

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/26/26 - 5/13/26
TuTh 4p.m. – 5:15p.m.		 Wheatley-Peters W01-0061 3 $2065 (guest students)
Date
1/26/26 - 5/13/26
Time
TuTh 4p.m. – 5:15p.m.
Location
Wheatley-Peters W01-0061
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2065 (guest students)

Description

This course examines 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. Students will gain an understanding of queer of color critique as a humanistic method of inquiry that includes the analysis and interpretation of ideas and symbolic expression. We will examine 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.

Prerequisites

Pre-requisites: at least one WGS course or permission of instructor.

Guest registration opens Jan 4

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

1/26/2026 - 5/13/2026

Location

Wheatley-Peters W01-0061

General Ed Requirements

Humanities

Enrolled / Capacity

10 / 25

Status

Closed

Instructor

Suisui Wang

Tuition*

$2065 (guest students)

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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