Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies
Minor
About this program
The Minor in Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies explores the histories, identities and activism of queer and trans indigenous people and people of color. The program takes an interdisciplinary approach, blending history, theory and cultural analysis. Students gain an understanding of how QTBIPOC people have been oppressed and the diverse ways in which they have resisted. Through this study, students gain tools to challenge inequality and work toward justice for queer and trans communities in the U.S. and beyond.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
The Race and Resistance Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program that provides undergraduate students with an approach to social justice to study race as a politically produced and contested process that begins with institutions, movements, and social problems to examine racialized communities.
The curriculum examines how race, gender, and class are co-constitutive factors of identity; how different groups are racialized in relation to one another; how social justice movements cohere and fall apart; and how groups have formed their own identities. The Race and Resistance Studies minor provides students with non-traditional, multi-ethnic, and comparative perspectives on national and transnational experiences of people of color within the U.S.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Identify the histories and identities of LGBTQ, Two-Spirit, and Gender Non-Conforming (GNC) people of color and indigenous people.
- Apply the concept of intersectionality to the analysis of gender-oppressed people of color and indigenous people, such as women of color, queers of color, Two-Spirit peoples, and transgender people of color.
- Interpret cultural production by and about QoC, and the ways it expresses agency of oppressed peoples and/or challenges social inequalities.
- Analyze social movements in the contestation of social hierarchies based on race, gender, sexuality.
- Analyze race, gender, and sexuality as co-constitutive identities and recognize both marked and unmarked categories of identity.