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 83
... murdered were of color . This reticence was presumably a sign of embarrassment , a dread of having gay- ness associated with racism , or a fear of talking about interracial sex in the context of the Dahmer murders . The habit of ...
... murdered were of color . This reticence was presumably a sign of embarrassment , a dread of having gay- ness associated with racism , or a fear of talking about interracial sex in the context of the Dahmer murders . The habit of ...
Page 90
... murdered use an evangelical and homophobi- cally coded language to denounce Dahmer , then their efforts to present their sons , brothers , etc. as diametrically different from the demonized Dahmer inevitably involve some degree of ...
... murdered use an evangelical and homophobi- cally coded language to denounce Dahmer , then their efforts to present their sons , brothers , etc. as diametrically different from the demonized Dahmer inevitably involve some degree of ...
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... murdered , as well as of the person accused of murdering Dahmer himself , while down- playing or denying their sexual orientation , constructed the Dahmer case as racially overdetermined , or , more subtly , as a case of white gay ...
... murdered , as well as of the person accused of murdering Dahmer himself , while down- playing or denying their sexual orientation , constructed the Dahmer case as racially overdetermined , or , more subtly , as a case of white gay ...
Contents
The Men of South Africa | 19 |
Representing Race in the Discourse of Desire | 35 |
Gloria Anzaldúas Queer Mestisaje | 63 |
Copyright | |
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Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory Ian Barnard Limited preview - 2004 |
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