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 85
... police officers as similarly confounded . Antiracist and antihomo- phobia activists have assumed that the police officers who delivered Konerak Sintha- somphone back to Dahmer acted out of racist and homophobic impulses , 14 but we ...
... police officers as similarly confounded . Antiracist and antihomo- phobia activists have assumed that the police officers who delivered Konerak Sintha- somphone back to Dahmer acted out of racist and homophobic impulses , 14 but we ...
Page 90
... police for fear that the publicity would lead to his family's discovery of his queerness.30 The victims sometimes denied their own queer- ness . Dahmer's final victim , the man who escaped and lead police to Dahmer , was re- putedly ...
... police for fear that the publicity would lead to his family's discovery of his queerness.30 The victims sometimes denied their own queer- ness . Dahmer's final victim , the man who escaped and lead police to Dahmer , was re- putedly ...
Page 95
... police , the po- lice chief versus the police union . " 46 Once again we are left with discrete oppositions of race and oppositions of sexuality that fail to recognize each other in each other , and that reproduce the understandings of ...
... police , the po- lice chief versus the police union . " 46 Once again we are left with discrete oppositions of race and oppositions of sexuality that fail to recognize each other in each other , and that reproduce the understandings of ...
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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