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Assignment:
Your final essay will address the aftermath or afterlife of colonialism (coloniality) on racial, sexual, and gender identities.
Our last three books have focused on the violent realities created by colonialism and perpetuated by coloniality.
Analyze the problems created by Eurocentric/Western/Modern/Colonial knowledge and institutions using the assigned reading materials.
Hint: one approach would be to examine large and small-scale violence. Reflects on how modern institutions represent themselves as benign or neutral yet generate violence and perpetuate traumas. For the second half of the essay, analyze and discuss ways of resistance, especially as done by queer women of color and other activists of color. Discuss their practices/actions to reclaim, rename, reinterpret, renew, and resist the everyday normalized violence. What are the possible futures, tomorrows, and worlds that are envisioned?
Assigned readings to use: Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas by Susy J. Zepeda, The Force of Witness by Rosa-Linda Fregoso, and Eros Ideologies : Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial by Laura E. Pérez.
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