FS 014 PZ -Queer Latinx Migration Migration, Race, Detention, and Deportation

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This interdisciplinary class draws from queer and Feminist theory, Latinx and Latin American Studies and social movements to study migration/immigration and Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Intersex narratives. Mainstream immigration policy/movement discourses prioritize heteronormative notions of ‘family’ and citizenship, eliding voices and visibility for LGBTQI+ justice. Meanwhile predominant articulations of LGBTQ ‘equality’ marginalize queer immigrants. This class explores how Latinx-, immigrant-, Trans- led community campaigns against horrific conditions in private detention centers and on the ‘borderlands’ are challenging myopic notions of immigrant and LGBTQ rights. We will interrogate historical and contemporary conceptions of sexuality, gender, gender identity, race and (im)migration. (Instrutor: Suyapa Portillo Villeda)

Prerequisite(s): None

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.