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Racial Erotics

C. Winter Han
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Author : C. Winter Han
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295749105

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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.

Sovereign Erotics

Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda,Lisa Tatonetti
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Author : Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda,Lisa Tatonetti
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816502424

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Sovereign Erotics by Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda,Lisa Tatonetti Pdf

Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasn’t until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that book’s publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been another collection published that focuses explicitly on the writing and art of Indigenous Two-Spirit and Queer people. This landmark collection strives to reflect the complexity of identities within Native Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) communities. Gathering together the work of established writers and talented new voices, this anthology spans genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essay) and themes (memory, history, sexuality, indigeneity, friendship, family, love, and loss) and represents a watershed moment in Native American and Indigenous literatures, Queer studies, and the intersections between the two. Collaboratively, the pieces in Sovereign Erotics demonstrate not only the radical diversity among the voices of today’s Indigenous GLBTQ2 writers but also the beauty, strength, and resilience of Indigenous GLBTQ2 people in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Indira Allegra, Louise Esme Cruz, Paula Gunn Allen, Qwo-Li Driskill, Laura Furlan, Janice Gould, Carrie House, Daniel Heath Justice, Maurice Kenny, Michael Koby, M. Carmen Lane, Jaynie Lara, Chip Livingston, Luna Maia, Janet McAdams, Deborah Miranda, Daniel David Moses, D. M. O’Brien, Malea Powell, Cheryl Savageau, Kim Shuck, Sarah Tsigeyu Sharp, James Thomas Stevens, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, William Raymond Taylor, Joel Waters, and Craig Womack

The Erotic Life of Racism

Sharon Patricia Holland
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Author : Sharon Patricia Holland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352068

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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.

Against the Closet

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
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Author : Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822352419

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Against the Closet by Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Pdf

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.

Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation

Sara Blair
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Author : Sara Blair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521497507

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Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation by Sara Blair Pdf

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.

Unequal Desires

Siobhan Brooks
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Author : Siobhan Brooks
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438432168

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Unequal Desires by Siobhan Brooks Pdf

Investigates race and racism in the U.S. exotic dance industry.

Appealing Because He Is Appalling

Tamari Kitossa
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Author : Tamari Kitossa
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772125436

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This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing authors use Baldwin's and Fanon's cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black masculinities to demonstrate their neglected contributions to thinking about and beyond colonialist and Western gender and masculinity studies. This innovative and sophisticated work will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, gender and masculinities studies, sociology, political science, history, and critical race and racialization. Foreword by Tommy J. Curry. Contributors: Katerina Deliovsky, Delroy Hall, Dennis O. Howard, Elishma Khokhar, Tamari Kitossa, Kemar McIntosh, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Watufani M. Poe, Satwinder Rehal, John G. Russell, Mohan Siddi

The Erotics of History

Donald L. Donham
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Author : Donald L. Donham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520968875

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans’ race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement.

Freedom's Empire

Laura Anne Doyle
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Author : Laura Anne Doyle
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 082234159X

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A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.

Open World Empire

Christopher B. Patterson
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Author : Christopher B. Patterson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479886364

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Open World Empire by Christopher B. Patterson Pdf

Finalist, 2021 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play Video games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainment in revenue and in global reach. On the surface, games do not appear ideological, nor are they categorized as national products. Instead, they seem to reflect the open and uncontaminated reputation of information technology. Video games are undeniably imperial products. Their very existence has been conditioned upon the spread of militarized technology, the exploitation of already-existing labor and racial hierarchies in their manufacture, and the utopian promises of digital technology. Like literature and film before it, video games have become the main artistic expression of empire today: the open world empire, formed through the routes of information technology and the violences of drone combat, unending war, and overseas massacres that occur with little scandal or protest. Though often presented as purely technological feats, video games are also artistic projects, and as such, they allow us an understanding of how war and imperial violence proceed under signs of openness, transparency, and digital utopia. But the video game, as Christopher B. Patterson argues, is also an inherently Asian commodity: its hardware is assembled in Asia; its most talented e-sports players are of Asian origin; Nintendo, Sony, and Sega have defined and dominated the genre. Games draw on established discourses of Asia to provide an “Asiatic” space, a playful sphere of racial otherness that straddles notions of the queer, the exotic, the bizarre, and the erotic. Thinking through games like Overwatch, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Shenmue II, and Alien: Isolation, Patterson reads against empire by playing games erotically, as players do—seeing games as Asiatic playthings that afford new passions, pleasures, desires, and attachments.

Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia

Purnima Mankekar,Louisa Schein
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Author : Purnima Mankekar,Louisa Schein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822345770

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Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia by Purnima Mankekar,Louisa Schein Pdf

Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of their producers and consumers. The essays in this volume cover a wide geographic and thematic range, and combine rigorous textual analysis with empirical research into the production, circulation, and consumption of various forms of media. Judith Farquhar examines how health magazines serve as sources of both medical information and erotic titillation to readers in urban China. Tom Boellstorff analyzes how queer zines produced in Indonesia construct the relationship between same-sex desire and citizenship. Purnima Mankekar examines the rearticulation of commodity affect, erotics, and nation on Indian television. Louisa Schein describes how portrayals of Hmong women in videos shot in Laos create desires for the homeland among viewers in the diaspora. Taken together, the essays offer fresh insights into research on gender, erotics, media, and Asia transnationally conceived. Contributors. Anne Allison, Tom Boellstorff, Nicole Constable, Heather Dell, Judith Farquhar, Sarah L. Friedman, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Purnima Mankekar, Louisa Schein, Everett Yuehong Zhang

Recovering the Black Female Body

Michael Bennett,Vanessa D. Dickerson
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Author : Michael Bennett,Vanessa D. Dickerson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813528399

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Recovering the Black Female Body by Michael Bennett,Vanessa D. Dickerson Pdf

Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.

Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance

Cecily Devereux
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Author : Cecily Devereux
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781771125888

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Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance by Cecily Devereux Pdf

Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called “Salomania,” as a crucial event and a turning point in the history of the modern business of erotic dance. Framing Salomania with reference to imperial ideologies of motherhood and race, it works toward better understanding the increasing value of the display of the undressed female body in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This study turns critical attention to cultures of maternity in the late 19th century, primarily with reference to the ways in which women are defined in relation to their genitals as patriarchal property and space and are valued according to reproduction as their primary labour. Erotic dance as it takes shape in the modern representation of Salome insists both that the mother is and is not visible in the body of the dancer, a contradiction this study characterizes as reproductive fetishism. Looking at a range of media, the study traces the modern figure of Salome through visual art, writing, early psychoanalysis and dance, from "hootchie kootch" to the performances dancer Maud Allan called “mimeo-dramatic” to mid-20th-century North American films such as Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Charles Lamont's Salome, Where She Danced to the 21st-century HBO series The Sopranos.

IVenceremos?

Jafari S. Allen
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Author : Jafari S. Allen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822349501

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IVenceremos? by Jafari S. Allen Pdf

DIVAn ethnography of sexual identity formation in contemporary Cuba./div

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies

Nancy L. Fischer,Laurel Westbrook,Steven Seidman
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Author : Nancy L. Fischer,Laurel Westbrook,Steven Seidman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000579185

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Introducing the New Sexuality Studies by Nancy L. Fischer,Laurel Westbrook,Steven Seidman Pdf

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate level. The fourth edition adds 51 new essays whilst retaining 33 of the most popular essays from previous editions. It features perspectives that are intersectional, transnational, sex positive, and attentive to historically marginalized groups along multiple axes of inequality, including gender, race, class, ability, body size, religious identity, age, and, of course, sexuality. Essays explore how a wide variety of social institutions, including medicine, religion, the state, and education, shape sexual desires, behaviors, and identities. Sources of, and empirical research on, oppression are discussed, along with modes of resistance, activism, and policy change. The fourth edition also adds new user-friendly features for students and instructors. Keywords are italicized and defined, and each chapter concludes with review questions to help students ascertain their comprehension of key points. There is also an online annotated table of contents to help readers identify key ideas and concepts at a glance for each chapter.