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 Anzald a, 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 59
... insistence on the systemic and institutional nature of racism . But Traitor to the Race is ultimately more disruptive of entrenched economies of identity than B - Boy Blues because Traitor irretrievably complicates notions of racial ...
... insistence on the systemic and institutional nature of racism . But Traitor to the Race is ultimately more disruptive of entrenched economies of identity than B - Boy Blues because Traitor irretrievably complicates notions of racial ...
Page 83
... insistence that the races — and sexualities — of those he mur- dered were irrelevant , and that he chose his victims because of their physical features ( " My only objective was to find the best - looking guy I could " ) , does not ...
... insistence that the races — and sexualities — of those he mur- dered were irrelevant , and that he chose his victims because of their physical features ( " My only objective was to find the best - looking guy I could " ) , does not ...
Page 105
... insistence on the instability of gender and sexual identities , and its infiltration of queerness into every subject . The queer substitution in the " your picture here " poster thus not only celebrates the murder of a woman as the ...
... insistence on the instability of gender and sexual identities , and its infiltration of queerness into every subject . The queer substitution in the " your picture here " poster thus not only celebrates the murder of a woman as the ...
Contents
The Men of South Africa | 19 |
Representing Race in the Discourse of Desire | 35 |
Gloria Anzaldúas Queer Mestisaje | 63 |
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Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory Ian Barnard Limited preview - 2004 |
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