What is the ethics of ethnic studies? What is critical ethnic studies and how does it intersect with queer of color critique and women of color feminism? What are the ethics of comparative racialization and multiracial feminism in the contemporary moment? 

This course will provide an introduction to and be driven by two trajectories: on one hand, tracing the theoretical and historical gender, sexual and racial formations of the "posts": post-civil rights, post-9/11, and post-racial eras; on the other, the ethical projects developing within comparative race, ethnic, feminist, and queer studies. 

Course Objectives:

• To examine theories of the material conditions of racialized, sexualized, gendered inequality and a more liberatory future;
• To explore how to analyze, critique and write about the intersections among theory, culture, and politics
• To develop and refine scholarly argumentation to the level of publication quality.