Divas, Lovers, and Sissies

Undergraduate

In this course we explore literature, television, film, fashion, photography, and music to understand expressions of Latinx race, gender, and sexuality. If categories like “man,” “woman,” “black,” “queer,” and “Latinx” are socially constructed, and not fixed, we will ask how Latinx identity comes together in our contemporary culture. How do queerness, citizenship, and age impact conditions of racial and ethnic belonging, and vice versa? What do different genres and art mediums allow us to understand about Latinx gender and sexual norms? How do queer and feminist Latinx authors and artists revise notions of desirability, beauty, safety, and family to better suit survival? In this course, you will learn how to use literary and textual analysis to make claims about culture and identity.