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CHILATST 53J: Love Notes: Queers of Color on Politics of the Heart (CSRE 53J)

This course unfolds in three ways. First, we will begin by examining theories of love by women of color feminists and queer theorists. Secondly, we will position these theories alongside art, literature, photography, comics, and film by and about queers of color who partake in the cultural representation of the love story. Finally, we will interrogate the aesthetic politics of each work in order engage with the ways that the writers, artists, and filmmakers contribute to the theorization of love.

CHILATST 160N: Chican@/Latin@ Performance in the U.S. (TAPS 160N)

This course will introduce works by U.S. Latino and Latina performance artists producing from the margins of the mainstream Euro-American theater world. We will examine how performance art serves as a kind of dramatized political forum for Latino/a artists, producing some of the most transgressive explorations of queer and national/ethnic identities in the U.S. today. By the course's conclusion, each student will create and perform in a staged reading of an original performance piece.

CHILATST 168: New Citizenship: Grassroots Movements for Social Justice in the U.S. (ANTHRO 169A, CSRE 168, FEMGEN 140H)

Focus is on the contributions of immigrants and communities of color to the meaning of citizenship in the U.S. Citizenship, more than only a legal status, is a dynamic cultural field in which people claim equal rights while demanding respect for differences. Academic studies of citizenship examined in dialogue with the theory and practice of activists and movements. Engagement with immigrant organizing and community-based research is a central emphasis.

CHILATST 189W: Language and Minority Rights (CSRE 189W, EDUC 189X)

Language as it is implicated in migration and globalization. The effects of globalization processes on languages, the complexity of language use in migrant and indigenous minority contexts, the connectedness of today's societies brought about by the development of communication technologies. Individual and societal multilingualism; preservation and revival of endangered languages.

| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom

CHILATST 201B: From Racial Justice to Multiculturalism: Movement-based Arts Organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era (CSRE 201B)

How creative projects build and strengthen communities of common concern. Projects focus on cultural reclamation, multiculturalism, cultural equity and contemporary cultural wars, media literacy, independent film, and community-based art. Guest artists and organizers, films, and case studies.

CHILATST 201C: Critical Concepts in Chican@ Literature (CSRE 201C, ILAC 380E)

Combines primary texts of Chican@ literature with a metacritical interrogation of key concepts informing Chican@ literary criticism, the construction of Chican@ literary history, and a Chican@ literary canon. Interrogates the resistance paradigm and the "proper" subject of this literature, and critiques established genealogies and foundational authors and texts, as well as issues of periodization, including the notion of "emergence" (e.g. of feminist voices or dissident sexualities). Considers texts, authors and subjects that present alternatives to the resistance paradigm.