Question 1: What is “feeling brown?” (10 pts)
Question 2 (40 pts): Drawing from Queer Ricans, Pelo Malo and The Erotics and Politics of Self-Making, discuss the centrality of race in the development of gender and sexual identities (use specific examples).
Question 3: (30 points) Drawing from Pelo Malo, define and discuss Muñoz’s notions of:
Feeling Brown (you should have defined this in question 1. Here just discuss it)
Affect/the politics of affect
Whiteness as an affective register
Disidentification
Question 4 (20 points): Drawing from Queer Ricans, discuss the politics of migration, national identity and their centrality in forming queer subjectivities. Give specific examples from the text to support your argument.