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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access is queer ' s potential rather than its inevitability . There is always the
potential for appropriation , too . As Helen ( Charles ) points out , queer is a
working - class word that has been taken up by the middle - classes . 36 Further ,
there is ...
access is queer ' s potential rather than its inevitability . There is always the
potential for appropriation , too . As Helen ( Charles ) points out , queer is a
working - class word that has been taken up by the middle - classes . 36 Further ,
there is ...
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... what kinds of appropriations and erasures are often effected in the service of a
queer agenda , and how the potential misogyny of such an agenda might further
caution against a too easy celebration of the binarybreaking potential of queer .
... what kinds of appropriations and erasures are often effected in the service of a
queer agenda , and how the potential misogyny of such an agenda might further
caution against a too easy celebration of the binarybreaking potential of queer .
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This is not to deny the substantive explanatory potential of a race - sex
breakdown of selected cultural phenomena : I have shown , for instance , how the
silent articulation of whiteness as gayness attempts to disable an antiracist queer
critique ...
This is not to deny the substantive explanatory potential of a race - sex
breakdown of selected cultural phenomena : I have shown , for instance , how the
silent articulation of whiteness as gayness attempts to disable an antiracist queer
critique ...
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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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