Author: C. Winter Han
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295749105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Sexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social structures that define whiteness as desirable and normative while othering men of color. In queer erotic economies this othering may take the form of sexual rejection or fetishization of men of color, but C. Winter Han argues that the real danger of sexual racism is that it creates a hierarchy of racial worth that extends outside of erotic encounters into the everyday lives of gay men of color. In this way, sexual racism perpetuates a larger project of racial erasing that equates gayness with whiteness to secure acceptance for gay white men at the expense of queers of color. With vivid examples from interviews, media representations, and online dating sites, Han highlights the creative means through which gay men of color, cordoned off in spaces both gay and straight, produce alternative frameworks to combat dominant narratives. Racial Erotics offers a new paradigm for understanding the connection of race and queer desire, demonstrating how race profoundly shapes sexual desires among men while racialized notions of desire construct beliefs about belonging.
Author: Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822352419
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom.
Author: Sharon Patricia Holland
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822352060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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In this critique of the fields of feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory, Sharon Holland describes how, despite decades of theoretical and political work focused on race, we are continually affected by everyday experiences of racism and attached to old patterns of racist thought.
Author: Siobhan Brooks
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143843216X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Investigates race and racism in the U.S. exotic dance industry.
Author: Associate Professor of Sociology C Winter Han
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295749082
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Sexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social structures that define whiteness as desirable and normative while othering men of color. In queer erotic economies this othering may take the form of sexual rejection or fetishization of men of color, but C. Winter Han argues that the real danger of sexual racism is that it creates a hierarchy of racial worth that extends outside of erotic encounters into the everyday lives of gay men of color. In this way, sexual racism perpetuates a larger project of racial erasing that equates gayness with whiteness to secure acceptance for gay white men at the expense of queers of color. With vivid examples from interviews, media representations, and online dating sites, Han highlights the creative means through which gay men of color, cordoned off in spaces both gay and straight, produce alternative frameworks to combat dominant narratives. Racial Erotics offers a new paradigm for understanding the connection of race and queer desire, demonstrating how race profoundly shapes sexual desires among men while racialized notions of desire construct beliefs about belonging.
Author: Denton Callander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197605508
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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This book brings together a collection of research, personal reflection, and creative work to provide a comprehensive, in-depth account of sexual racism from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The volume makes the case that sexual racism is in the very foundations of our societies, determining the ideas, bodies, and systems positioned as desirable. From this provocative perspective, Sexual Racism and Social Justice offers a new understanding of the relationship between sex and race, arguing that to undesire whiteness is to help undo sexual racism, which are essential steps in the meaningful advancement of social justice.
Author: Rachel Slocum
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317129067
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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While interest in the relations of power and identity in food explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the places it is sold and the manner in which it is eaten? How do we understand farming and provisioning, tasting and picking, eating and being eaten, hunger and gardening better by paying attention to race? This collection argues there is an unacknowledged racial dimension to the production and consumption of food under globalization. Building on case studies from across the world, it advances the conceptualization of race by emphasizing embodiment, circulation and materiality, while adding to food advocacy an antiracist perspective it often lacks. Within the three socio-physical spatialities of food - fields, bodies and markets - the collection reveals how race and food are intricately linked. An international and multidisciplinary team of scholars complements each other to shed light on how human groups become entrenched in myriad hierarchies through food, at scales from the dining room and market stall to the slave trade and empire. Following foodways as they constitute racial formations in often surprising ways, the chapters achieve a novel approach to the process of race as one that cannot be reduced to biology, culture or capitalism.
Author: Peter Pericles Trifonas
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415931489
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231114813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The first book to treat issues of race and ethnicity as related to noir, offering a cultural history of twentieth-century America through episodic readings of films, photographs, and literature.
Author: Sara Blair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497503
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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This 1996 book describes a new Henry James who, rather than being paraded as a beacon of high culture, actually expresses a nuanced understanding of, and engagement with, popular culture. Arguing against recent trends in critical studies which locate racial resistance in popular culture, Sara Blair uncovers this resistance within literature and high modernism. She analyses a variety of texts from early travel writing to The Princess Casamassima, The American Scene and The Tragic Muse, always setting the scene through descriptions of key events of the time such as Jack the Ripper's murders. Blair makes a powerful case for reading James with a sense of sustained contradiction and her project absorbingly argues for the historical and ongoing importance of literary texts and discourses to the study of culture and cultural value.
