Topics in Latina and Latino Social and Political Issues (392-0-1)
Topic
Embodying Home: Performances of Race and Gender ac
Instructors
Gabriel Andres Guzman
Meeting Info
Kresge Centennial Hall 2-339: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:20PM
Overview of class
How do stories of home show up on/in our bodies and what happens when we take them with us? This class considers the home as a valuable site of knowledge production, considering how personal narrative, objects, and sensations inform our understandings and experiences of race and gender. Through the use of storytelling and mixed media art-making, students will build their own archives to understand how the political works in/on our own bodies. We will engage with queer of color critique, borderland studies, performance theory, and ethnic studies to examine the importance of artistic intervention in disrupting the border between the personal and the political. Students can expect to engage in artistic practices such as photography, DJing, film, collage, and zines among other media. The course will conclude with a final creative project.
Learning Objectives
1) understand and analyze the heterogeneity and complexity of Latinx histories, cultures, and embodied experiences;
2) query how the political relationship between the U.S and Mexico border informs our own understandings of race and gender, and identity etc.
3) explore the meaning and role of home in sensations of gender and race;
4) create an archive of home, objects, personal histories, and performance
5) engage in storytelling and art-practice in critical and thoughtful ways;
Class Materials (Required)
- Anzaldúa, Gloria, and Cherríe Moraga. Selections from "This bridge called my back."
Writings of Radical Women of (1981).
- Emma Pérez, "Queering the Borderlands: The Challenges of Excavating the Invisible and
Unheard," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 24, no. 2 (2003): 122-131.
- Frances R. Aparicio, "(Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies" in A
Companion to Latina/o Studies (2007), pp. 39-48.
- Muñoz, José Esteban. Selections from "Disidentifications: Queers of color and the
performance of politics." Vol. 2. U of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- Rodríguez, Juana María. Introduction from "Sexual futures, queer gestures, and other
Latina longings." NYU Press, 2014.
- Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás. "11. Rasquachismo: A Chicano Sensibility." Chicano and Chicana
Art. Duke University Press, 2019. 85-90.
- "El desorden, Nationalism, and Chicana/o Aesthetics," by Laura Elisa Pérez from Between
Women and Nation Transnational Feminisms and the State, edited by Caren Kaplan, Norma
Alarcón, and Minoo Moallem, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.
- Salt | water : Vietnamese Refugee Passages, Memory, and Statelessness at Sea Patricia
Nguyễn WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 45, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2017, pp.
94-111.
-Francisco Galarte, "Thinking Brown and Trans Together" and "Coda: Reading with the X," in
Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/ Latinx Studies, U of
Texas P, 2021, pp. 1-22, 129-138.
- Boyd, Nan Alamilla, and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez. Bodies of Evidence : the Practice of
Queer Oral History . Oxford;: Oxford University Press, 2012. Introduction
Danticat, Edwidge. Selections from "Create dangerously: The immigrant artist at work."
Vintage, 2011.
-Holland, Sharon P., Marcia Ochoa, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins. "On the visceral." GLQ: A
Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20.4 (2014): 391-406.
- Vargas, Deborah R. Selections from "Dissonant divas in Chicana music: The limits of La
Onda." U of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- Hernandez, Jillian. "" Miss, you look like a Bratz doll": On chonga girls and
sexual-aesthetic excess." nwsa Journal (2009): 63-90.
- Muñoz, José Esteban. "Ephemera as evidence: Introductory notes to queer acts." (1996):
5-16.
- Coco Fusco "The Other History of Intercultural Performance" from The Feminism and
Visual Culture Reader, edited by Amelia Jones (2003, Routledge), p. 205-216
- Richard T. Rodríguez, "Staking Family Claims" and "Making Queer Familia," in Next of Kin: The
Family in Chicana/o Cultural Politics, Duke UP, 2009, pp. 1-18, 167-176.
- Arlene Davila, Selections from "Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics" (Duke, 2020)
-Kun, Josh D. "The aural border." Theatre Journal 52.1 (2000): 1-21.
-Alexander, M. Jacqui, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. "Cartographies of knowledge and
power." Critical transnational feminist praxis 23 (2010).
-Alvarez Jr, Eddy Francisco. "Finding sequins in the rubble: Stitching together an archive of trans
Latina Los Angeles." Transgender Studies Quarterly 3.3-4 (2016): 618-627.
-Madison, D. Soyini, and Judith Hamera. "Performance studies at the intersections." The Sage
handbook of performance studies (2006): xi-xxv.
-Madison, D.S. (2016). Ethnography Across Storytelling and the Senses. In: emerald, e., Rinehart,
R.E., Garcia, A. (eds) Global South Ethnographies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-494-7_2
-Vazquez, Alexandra T. "Introduction." Listening in detail: Performances of Cuban music. Duke
University Press, 2013: 1-42.
- Fleetwood, Nicole R. "Introduction." Troubling vision: Performance, visuality, and blackness.
University of Chicago Press, 2019: 1-32.
- Brooks, Andrew. 2015. "Glitch/Failure: Constructing a Queer Politics of Listening." Leonardo
Music Journal 25, 37-40.
-Daniel, Drew. "All Sound Is Queer". The WIRE. London. Issue 333: November 2011.
-Danielson, Marivel T. Homecoming queers: desire and difference in Chicana Latina cultural
production. Rutgers University Press, 2009.
-Garcia, Cindy. ""Don't leave me, Celia!": Salsera homosociality and pan-Latina corporealities."
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 18.3 (2008): 199-213.
-Rivera-Servera, Ramón H. Selections from, "Performing queer latinidad: Dance, sexuality,
politics." University of Michigan Press, 2012.
-Ledezma, Deanna. "Regarding Family Photography in Contemporary Latinx Art." Art Journal 79,
no. 3 (Fall 2020): 80-89.
- Paik, A. Naomi. Selections from, "Bans, walls, raids, sanctuary: Understanding US immigration
for the twenty-first century." Vol. 12. Univ of California Press, 2020.
Class Attributes
Social and Behavioral Science Foundational Discipl
Interdisciplinary Distro-rules apply
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area
Ethics & Values Distro Area