"Race, Capital, Intimacy: Epistemological Problems in American and Ethnic Studies"
This course examines the rise of intimacy as a crucial critical term for a variety of critiques currently being staged in American and Ethnic Studies. We will read across disciplines: historians, literary critics, psychoanalysts, queer scholars, etc. In addition to studying different methods for engaging with 'intimacy,' we will ask how these varying engagements critique or rework dominant ways of thinking about race and capital in American and Ethnic Studies. Primary texts will include films and novels.