The Erotic Life of Racism

Informationen zum Autor Sharon Patricia Holland is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and Black Subjectivity and the coeditor of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Last Word on Racism 1 1. Race: There's No Place like "Beyond" 17 2. Desire, or "A Bit of the Other" 41 3. S.H.E.: Reproducing Discretion as the Better Part of (Queer) Valor 65 Conclusion: Racism's Last Word 95 Notes 115 Bibliography 147 Index 161

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Holland, Sharon Patricia Holland
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2012
• EAN: 9780822352068
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5206-8
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Anthropologie, Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität / LGBTQ, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Soziale und ethische Themen