Spring 2024

ETHSTD 103A 001 - SEM 001

Proseminar: Issues in the Fields of Ethnic Studies: Racialization and Empire

“Latine/x & Caribbean Erotics, Archives, and Acts”

Gregoria Rosa Olson

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

Tu, Th

12:30 pm - 01:59 pm

Social Sciences Building 587

Class #:33761

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Ethnic Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 11

Enrolled: 9

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 20

Waitlist Max: 5

Open Reserved Seats:

5 reserved for Ethnic Studies Majors

3 reserved for Students with 5 or more Terms in Attendance

4 reserved for Undergraduate Students: Chicano Studies or ChicanX LatinX Studies Majors

Hours & Workload

9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Designed primarily to give majors in Asian American studies, Chicano studies, Latin American studies, ethnic studies, and Native American studies elementary training in theoretical approaches to the study of race and ethnicity. Emphasis will be placed on writing and discussion. For a precise schedule of offerings, see department catalog during pre-enrollment week each semester.

Class Description

This course centers the Caribbean within Latinx Studies & Ethnic Studies. In this seminar, we will attend to Latine/x and Caribbean archives and performances to trace how Latinidad has been historically constructed and imagined otherwise. Invoking Feminist & Queer Caribbean scholars and artists, we will consider what an emphasis on the erotic illuminates about Latine/x and Caribbean histories and geographies.