First 5 Tuesdays, 4-5:50pm, HSSB 2202
Enrollment Code: 54213
This seminar will invite students to consider critically and creatively personal, autobiographical narratives of queer/LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) desire and identity. We'll examine several generations of women and men's writings and oral histories, how they construct meaning about their genders and sexualities in relation to economic class position, religion, racial ethnic membership, and culture. The seminar will emphasize peoples of color in the U.S. and (im)migrant communities.
Professor Horacio Roque Ramirez, Chicana and Chicano Studies, teaches queer/LGBT community histories, cultures and politics, with an emphasis on Latina and Latino communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in oral history and community-based archival research. Besides teaching in these areas, he also offers courses in Central American migration, the Salvadoran Diaspora, and globalization and sexualities in the Americas.
