HIS 2270 - Queer History in the United States

Credits: 4
At one time the term queer had become almost exclusively an epithet hurled at homosexuals and people who did not fit into the basic binaries of sex and gender. Over the last several decades queer has been reappropriated as a declaration of gay pride and has been adopted by those in other maligned, ignored and new categories of sexual and gender identity including lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual. Queer was a shorter and easier word that addressed both the multitudes and limits of categories themselves. Queer history is the study of all these groups as well as the study of an expansive more inclusive approach to sex/gender difference. This course focuses on the influence of gender and sexual diversity in understanding the historical development of institutions, ideals, social and cultural transformations, socioeconomic and political processes in the United States since European settler colonialism.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding: Multicultural