Sexuality and Minorities

Introduction:

• DE (Designing Emotions)
• CD (Communication Design)
• PBL (Project Based Learning)
• PS (Performative Sociology)
• Topics:
  • Isaac Julien and Black Male Homosexuality in Euro-American Culture
    
    
    • Looking for Langston
    • Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask
  • Hara Kazuo and Kobayashi Sachiko
    
    
    • Good-Bye CP, Hara Kazuo, 1972
    • Gokushiteki Erosu: Renka 1974 [Extreme Private Eros Love Song 1974], Kazuo Hara, 1974
  • Horror Film and Female Sexuality
    
    
    • Large selection of clips
    • Taboo and female sexuality
  • African American Sexuality
    
    
    • Blaxploitation Cinema
    • SexWorld
  • Asian American Sexuality
    
    
    • Sex: The Annabel Chong Story, Gough Lewis, 2002
  • Aki Sugaya -
    • Human Sexuality Program at SFSU
    • Thesis: "Histories of sexuality in ukiyo-e shunga scholarship"
• My approach
  • Cinema
  • Cultural Artifact
    • e.g., Halloween, John Carpenter, 1978
• Minorities
  • Problematic
  • ideological category
  • supposed “purity” of the dominant group
  • Guillermo Gomez-Pena & La Pocha Nostra (Fall 2009)