Welcome
- Classes offered for Fall 2011
- Previously offered courses
- About the Instructor
- Research
- Department
- Articles featuring Amy Sueyoshi
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Classes offered for Fall 2011
ETHS710 Theories in Ethnic Studies
SXS300 Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Previously offered courses
ETHS380/SXS380 ONLINE Coloring Queer
ETHS380/HMSX380 Coloring Queer
ETHS600/HIST466 History of U.S. People of Color
ETHS640/840 Race and Sexual Migration
ETHS645/HMSX645 Sex in the City
ETHS670/HIST462 Making Whites
SXS 301 Introduction to LGBT Studies
SXS702 Sexuality in Historical Perspective
HMSX750 Queer Theory
About the Instructor
Amy Sueyoshi holds a joint appointment in Race and Resistance Studies and Sexuality Studies. She joined the faculty at San Francisco State University in Fall 2002 after completing a Ph.D. U.S. in history from UCLA. Her courses address issues of race, gender, and sexuality in historical and contemporary contexts.
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Research
Research Interest - U.S. History, Sexuality, Gender, Race, Immigration, Asian America
Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
Poet Yone Noguchi, more famously as known as the father of acclaimed artist Isamu Noguchi, enmeshed himself in several duplicitous affairs at the turn of the century. As Yone wrote passionate letters of love to western writer Charles Warren Stoddard, he proposed marriage to Alabama’s first historian Ethel Armes and impregnated editor Léonie Gilmour. Private fantasies and frustrated intimacies attest to how even the most seemingly selfish acts of sexuality are bound up in socio-cultural norms.
Forthcoming in spring 2012 with University of Hawai‘i Press
Selected Publications
“Intimate Inequalities: Interracial Affection and Same-sex Love in the ‘Heterosexual’ life of Yone Noguchi, 1897-1909,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 22-44.
“Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History and Yone Noguchi,” in Embodying Asian American Sexualities, Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger, ed., (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009): 157-172.
“Friday the Thirteenth – Love, Commitment, and then Catastrophe: Personal Reflections on the Marriage Equality Movement,” Amerasia Journal- Special Issue: Asian Americans and the Marriage Equality Debate 32, no.1 (2006): xi-xvii.
“Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 26, no. 3 (2005): 67-100.
“Sexuality and Asian Pacific Islander History,” Asian Pacific American Collective History Project, 2004 [online]; available from http://apachp.net/; Internet.
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Articles featuring Amy Sueyoshi
Castro gets LGBT Museum – Bay Area Reporter
(1/20/2011)
Amy Sueyoshi is Queering the Academy - National Sexuality Resource Center (11/08/10)
Historical Society Re-Launches Passionate Struggle Archives - SF Bay Times (02/18/10)
GLBT Historical Society Holds Ceremony to Open Castro Museum - SF Bay Times (12/31/08)
Ribbon-cutting at museum - Bay Area Reporter (12/25/08)
Gay history museum opens in Castro - Bay Area Reporter (12/04/08)
Students tackle issue of whiteness in America - SF State News (02/17/04)
New SFSU College of Ethnic Studies course: Whiteness studies - SF State News (02/05/04)
The Hottest Sex Tips on the Planet - Cosmopolitan
ASIAN POP Exotic, Erotic Asia - San Francisco Chronicle (09/24/04)
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