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 6
... merely reproduces the racism of the lesbian and gay organizations , struc- tures , struggles , campaigns , studies , and curricula that normalized and continues to nor- malize whiteness by failing to acknowledge the racial constitution ...
... merely reproduces the racism of the lesbian and gay organizations , struc- tures , struggles , campaigns , studies , and curricula that normalized and continues to nor- malize whiteness by failing to acknowledge the racial constitution ...
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... merely terminological contentions : they encapsulate polarized as- sumptions and agendas springing from theoretical and experiential premises that are very different yet bewilderingly prone to conflation and co - optation . To begin ...
... merely terminological contentions : they encapsulate polarized as- sumptions and agendas springing from theoretical and experiential premises that are very different yet bewilderingly prone to conflation and co - optation . To begin ...
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... merely reactive to gayness or to anything else , or merely an inverse reclamation of negativity . Thus , whereas in Chapter 2 I pleaded strategically for a po- liticized understanding of gayness , here it is apparent that even queer ...
... merely reactive to gayness or to anything else , or merely an inverse reclamation of negativity . Thus , whereas in Chapter 2 I pleaded strategically for a po- liticized understanding of gayness , here it is apparent that even queer ...
Contents
The Men of South Africa | 19 |
Representing Race in the Discourse of Desire | 35 |
Gloria AnzaldĂșas Queer Mestisaje | 63 |
Copyright | |
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