Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization

Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Duke University Press
Country
United States
Published
24 August 2011
Pages
384
ISBN
9780822349853

Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization

Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations. The nationalist and identity-based concepts of race underlying the mid-twentieth-century movements for decolonization and social change are not adequate to the tasks of critiquing the racial configurations generated by neocolonialism and contesting its inequities. Contemporary regimes of power produce racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence and labor exploitation, and they render subjects redundant and disposable by creating new, nominally nonracialized categories of privilege and stigma. The editors of Strange Affinities contend that the greatest potential for developing much-needed alternative comparative methods lies in women of color feminism, and the related intellectual tradition that Roderick A. Ferguson has called queer of color critique. Exemplified by the work of Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara Smith, and the Combahee River Collective, these critiques do not presume homogeneity across racial or national groups. Instead, they offer powerful relational analyses of the racialized, gendered, and sexualized valuation and devaluation of human life.Contributors Victor Bascara Lisa Marie Cacho M. Bianet Castellanos
Martha Chew Sanchez
Roderick A. Ferguson Grace Kyungwon Hong Helen H. Jun Kara Keeling
Sanda Mayzaw Lwin
Jodi Melamed
Chandan Reddy
Ruby C. Tapia Cynthia Tolentino

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