May 30 Readings + Additional references

Tuesday, May 30: Desire

• Agard-Jones, Vanessa. 2012. “What the Sands Remember Links to an external site..” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 18 (2-3): 325–46.
• Gill, Lyndon. 2018. “Introduction: A Queer Cartography of Desire.” In Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean Links to an external site.. Durham: Duke University Press, 1–18. (Lyndon Gill is Associate Professor at UT Austin but his faculty page doesn't have a bio so instead I found this profile Links to an external site.)

Thursday, June 1: Your projects

Final wrap-up of the seminar:  reflection on what resonated & discussion of final paper ideas.

 

Additional references shared on Tuesday

• Literature review on the concept of kinship in anthropology: Parkin, Robert. 2012. "Kinship Links to an external site.." Anthropology - Oxford bibliographies. (J. L. Jackson, Ed.), online.
• The "Frazier/Herkovits debate": 1930s-1940s conversations in the social sciences about interpretations of African American culture amidst anti-racist efforts regarding whether "Africanisms" exist:
  • Frazier, Franklin. 1940 [1939]. The Negro Family in the United States. University of Chicago Press.
  • Herskovits, Melville . 1941. The Myth of a Negro Past Links to an external site.. Harper & Brothers.
• Another take on the culture in Black Atlantic as "transnational, syncretic, and countercultural" (as well as essential to the construction of modernity): Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press.
• An earlier reference on the "doing" of relation: "We are not prompted solely by the defining of our identities but by their relation to everything possible as well--the mutual mutations generated by this interplay of relations." Glissant, Edouard. 1997 [1990]. Poetics of Relation. (translation Betsy Wing) University of Michigan Press, 89.
• Most of these aren't online, but they are all available in print form at the UW Library!
• Audre Lorde's original lecture (in her own voice!): "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power Links to an external site.." (Print form available in her 1984 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Links to an external site.. Crossing Press.)