Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer TheoryOne of the first extended and theoretically informed investigations of queer theory's racial inscription, Queer Race understands race as inextricably sexualized, as sexuality is always racially marked. The book critically and playfully explores intellectual and political deployments of the term «queer», gay pornographic videos about South Africa, contemporary literary representations of interracial gay desire, the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, and Jeffrey Dahmer's criminal trial. Through these explorations, Queer Race charts a framework for understanding the «race» of queer theory that both tests queer theory's limits and suggests its future inter-relations with anti-racist work. |
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Page 13
Fifth , the recognition of experiential difference proceeds from and to an
antiessentialist understanding of sexuality that realizes the historical and cultural
specificity of and multiplicity within contemporary lesbian , gay , and other
identities .
Fifth , the recognition of experiential difference proceeds from and to an
antiessentialist understanding of sexuality that realizes the historical and cultural
specificity of and multiplicity within contemporary lesbian , gay , and other
identities .
Page 45
If racial difference and race itself is hardly acknowledged in these depictions of
interracial relationships , it is not surprising that such representations would
distance these relationships from the apparatuses of racism as well . While some
...
If racial difference and race itself is hardly acknowledged in these depictions of
interracial relationships , it is not surprising that such representations would
distance these relationships from the apparatuses of racism as well . While some
...
Page 46
28 Goldsby ' s call to transform difference is , however , problematic , not only in
its presupposition that difference itself is politically undesirable , but also in its
unelaborated claim that difference can indeed be transformed into something
else ...
28 Goldsby ' s call to transform difference is , however , problematic , not only in
its presupposition that difference itself is politically undesirable , but also in its
unelaborated claim that difference can indeed be transformed into something
else ...
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Contents
The Men of South Africa | 19 |
Representing Race in the Discourse of Desire | 35 |
Gloria Anzaldúas Queer Mestisaje | 63 |
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| Title | Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory Volume 3 of Gender, sexuality & culture, ISSN 1528-6525 |
| Author | Ian Barnard |
| Publisher | Peter Lang, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 21 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820470880, 9780820470887 |
| Length | 146 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Gender Studies Social Science / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies |
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