Schedule

Note: 1140 students (undergraduates) should read the required articles listed below and have the option of reading the recommended texts. 2240 students (graduate students) should read all articles listed below, including recommended texts.

Mobilities & Citizenship

Key Concepts: migration and citizenship, affect and the state, state surveillance of moving bodies, queer diaspora, asylum, citizenship and racialized sexuality

May 9

• Welcome: syllabus, blog, logistics. Relationship between mobility & citizenship
• Luibhéid, Eithne. “Queer Migration: An Unruly Body of Scholarship.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14.2-3 (2008): 169-90.

May 11

• Somerville, Siobhan. “Notes toward a Queer History of Naturalization.” American Quarterly 57.3 (2005): 659-75.
• Recommended: GLQ 14.2-3 (2008)–Special Issue on Queer Migration
• In-class screening (short films): works by Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez

May 12

• DUE: Blog Post (11 pm)

May 14

• DUE: 2 Blog Comments (11 pm)

Privates, Publics, & Other Ideas

Key Concepts: liberalism and neoliberalism, public/private divide, sodomy laws, homonationalism and homonormativity, race and gender in sex laws

May 16

• Puar, Jasbir. “Infinite Control, Indefinite Detention: Rereading the Lawrence Case.” Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 114-65.
• Eng, David. “The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism.” The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 23-57.
• DUE: Student Discussion Facilitation
  

May 18

• Weiss, Margot. “Gay Shame and BDSM Pride: Neoliberalism, Privacy, and Sexual Politics.” Radical History Review 100 (2008): 87-101.
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. “Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza.” That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004. 237-62.
• DUE: Student Discussion Facilitation
  

May 19

• DUE: Blog Post (11 pm)

May 21

• DUE: 2 Blog Comments (11 pm)

Visual Citizenship & State Surveillance

Key Concepts: visuality and violence, state surveillance, gender/disability/race/sexuality in immigration policy, nationalism and xenophobia, racial/sexual/disability/gender profiling

May 23

• Beauchamp, Toby. “Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance after 9/11.” Surveillance and Society 6.4 (2009): 356-66.
• Transgender Law Center and National Center for Transgender Equality. “The Real ID Act: Bad Law for our Community.” 2005.
• GUEST SPEAKER: Toby Beauchamp, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego

May 25

• Luibhéid, Eithne. “Looking Like a Lesbian: Sexual Monitoring and the U.S. Border Patrol.” Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 77-102.
• Schweik, Susan M. “Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Ugly Law.” The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York: NYU Press, 2009. 165-83.
• Wessler, Seth Freed. “Mapping the Spread of SB1070.” Colorlines, June 2010.
• DUE: Student Discussion Facilitation
  

May 26

• DUE: Blog Post (11 pm)

May 28

• DUE: 2 Blog Comments (11 pm)

Contagious Movements & National Anxieties

Key Concepts: contagion narratives, race and sex in public health discourses, queer domesticity, kinship norms and citizenship, biopower and biopolitics, urban planning and bodily surveillance

May 30–optional class meeting off-campus (it’s Memorial Day)

• Shah, Nayan. “Public Health, Race, Citizenship” AND “Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity.” Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown.  University of California Press, 2001.  1-16, 77-104.
• Recommended: Chen, Mel. “Racialized Toxins and Sovereign Fantasies.” Discourse 29.2-3 (2007): 367-83.

June 1

• Wald, Priscilla. “ ‘The Columbus of AIDS’: The Invention of ‘Patient Zero.’” Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 213-63.
• Recommended: Treichler, Paula. “AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification.” How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 11-41.
• DUE: Student Discussion Facilitation
  

June 2

• DUE: Blog Post (11 pm)

June 4

• DUE: 2 Blog Comments (11 pm)

Forced Immobilities & the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex

Key Concepts: the carceral state, asylum, public/private space, prison-industrial-military complex, youth cultures in performance

June 6

• In-class screening: Delinquent (Chor. Keith Hennessy, 2009)
• Making Delinquent Archive
• FIERCE. “Transgender Youth and the Prison-Industrial Complex.” 
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project. “Systems of Inequality: Criminal Justice.”
• DUE: Student Discussion Facilitation

June 8

• Solomon, Alisa. “Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo’s All American Story.” Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship and Border Crossings. Eds. Eithne Luibhéid and Lionel Cantú, Jr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 3-29.
• Agathangelou, Anna M., M. Daniel Bassichis, and Tamara L. Spira. “Intimate Investments: Homonormativity, Global Lockdown, and the Seductions of Empire.” Radical History Review 100 (2008): 120-43.
• DUE: Student Discussion Facilitation
  

June 9

• DUE: Blog Post (11 pm)

June 10

• DUE: 2 Blog Comments (11 pm)

Parental Citizenship & Queer(ing) Domesticity

Key Concepts: queerness and domesticity, the transnational politics of adoption, affective labor, kinship and citizenship, revisiting the liberal public/private divide

June 13

• Rodríguez, Juana María. “Queer Domesticity.” Sexual Subjects, Queer Gestures (forthcoming)
• Recommended: Eng, David. “Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas.” Social Text 21.3 (2003): 1-37.
• GUEST SPEAKER: Juana María Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of California Berkeley

June 14

• DUE: Blog Post (11 pm)
• No Blog Comments due this week

June 15

• DUE: Presentations of Final Projects
• DUE: Final Projects posted to course blog