Book Proposal: A Faculty Workshop

Presented by the CSWS Women of Color Project: Centering Intersectionality

Ernesto Martínez

330 Hendricks Hall, Jane Grant Conference Room

This book proposal workshop features Ernesto Martínez’s book, Queer Race Narratives: On the Practice and Politics of Intelligibility. Ernesto Martínez is an assistant professor in the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. His book-in-progress, Queer Race Narratives, “turns to the literature and cultural production of gays and lesbians of color in the United States in order to answer some important questions in contemporary social theory regarding the nature of knowledge acquisition and knowledge production in oppressive contexts. Specifically, this book traces discourses of intelligibility, recurring preoccupations with the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others in contexts of intense ideological violence and interpersonal conflict.”