| Date | Time | Location |
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| Monday, February 27, 2012 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
This talk draws from Professor El-Tayeb’s second single-authored book, European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (Duke University Press, 2011). The translocal strategies of resistance to the Europe-wide forms of racialization originates (in) a queer of color identity and activism shaped by transnational movements — central among them U.S. Women of Color Feminism and Hip Hop – while being rooted in particular geo-historical configurations of race, religion, colonialism, sexuality, nation and “Europeanness.” Professor El-Tayeb’s will present the book’s larger framework, then explore the spatiotemporal queering of communities of color through a neoliberal restructuring of the city, in which the symbolic inclusion of the white LGBT community is dependent on the exclusion of people of color and on the erasure of queer of color positionality.
Judith Halberstam described European Others as “a ground-breaking study, a theoretical adventure, and a major contribution to the literature on European racisms, queer diaspora, immigration, queer subcultures, and queer of color critique. No other scholar... has been able to weave together the strands of sexuality, gender, race, and resistance in such a daring and compelling way.”
Professor El-Tayeb is an Associate Professor of the Departments of Literature and Ethnic Studies and Associate Director for Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include African and Comparative Diaspora Studies, Transnational Feminism, Migrant, Minority Cultures, and Muslim Communities in the West, Queer of Color Critique, Visual Cultural Studies, and Media Theory.
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