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The Erotic Life of Racism

Autor Sharon Patricia Holland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2012
A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and how it operates as a quotidian practice. If racism has an everyday life, how does it remain so powerful and yet mask its very presence? To answer this question, Sharon P. Holland moves into the territory of the erotic, understanding racism’s practice as constitutive to the practice of racial being and erotic choice.Reemphasizing the black/white binary, Holland reinvigorates critical engagement with race and racism. She argues that only by bringing together critical race theory, queer theory, and black feminist thought into conversation with each other can we fully envision the relationship between racism and the personal and political dimensions of our desire. The Erotic Life of Racism provocatively redirects our attention to a desire no longer independent of racism but rather embedded within it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822352068
ISBN-10: 0822352060
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 158 x 228 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley

Recenzii

"Sharon Patricia Holland’s brilliant, provocative study challenges cultural theory by galvanizing a bold new conversation about the too-familiar realities of racism as manifested through everyday ‘erotic’ attachments, capaciously defined. As the book pointedly tracks the personal, bodily, familial, generational, institutional, and symbolic vectors of desire as implicated in racist ways of being, it brings into refocus a range of concerns—biology, touch, hate and love speech, blood relations, the forbidden, violence, miscegenation, liberal guilt and blame—that powerfully address the persistent pull of racism’s ordinariness in a culture that ostensibly desires to move beyond race. This is next-wave feminism, queer studies, and race theory at its best.” Marlon B. Ross, author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era

“In The Erotic Life of Racism, Sharon Patricia Holland investigates the relation between the erotic and race in cultural theory. The objective of the book is both to counter the prevalent ‘post racial’ ethos of contemporary American society by showing the continued relevance of the black/white binery, and to investigate various couplings and de-couplings of race and sexuality in the academy.” - Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, 2013


"Sharon Patricia Holland's brilliant, provocative study challenges cultural theory by galvanizing a bold new conversation about the too-familiar realities of racism as manifested through everyday 'erotic' attachments, capaciously defined. As the book pointedly tracks the personal, bodily, familial, generational, institutional, and symbolic vectors of desire as implicated in racist ways of being, it brings into refocus a range of concerns - biology, touch, hate and love speech, blood relations, the forbidden, violence, miscegenation, liberal guilt and blame - that powerfully address the persistent pull of racism's ordinariness in a culture that ostensibly desires to move beyond race. This is next-wave feminism, queer studies, and race theory at its best." Marlon B. Ross, author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era "In The Erotic Life of Racism, Sharon Patricia Holland investigates the relation between the erotic and race in cultural theory. The objective of the book is both to counter the prevalent 'post racial' ethos of contemporary American society by showing the continued relevance of the black/white binery, and to investigate various couplings and de-couplings of race and sexuality in the academy." - Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, 2013

Cuprins

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

Descriere

In this major work of Black queer feminist theory, Sharon Holland examines the intertwined histories of critical race theory, queer theory, and Black feminism, histories which could not have been formed in the same way without each other, but which now are often held at a respectful distance. As a result of that distance, each sees the other as more uniform than it is, which leads Holland to investigate what parts of queer theory or Black feminism or critical race theory are borrowed or criticized by the others and why. She is critical of ways that some queer scholars have moved away from feminism around issues of reproduction and of how the ordinary and quotidian pervasiveness of racism is constantly overlooked. She argues that a full account of the erotic would need to connect racism and desire, not hold them apart.