The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality

A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-123

  Ferguson, Roderick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronologies; Domestic violence; Racialized sexualities; Repression; Structural intersectionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889449106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470690864.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

References (26)

1. I thank Juana María Rodriguez for asking me to tease out in more detail my interpretation of the genealogy of intersectionality.
2. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color," in Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, eds. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas (New York: The New Press, 1995): 358.
3. Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971): 138.
4. Juana María Rodríguez, Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (New York: New York University Press, 2003): 30. See also José Esteban Muñoz's Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 1999) and José Quiroga's Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latin America (New York: New York University Press, 2001).
5. Sharon P. Holland, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000): 145-6.
6. Eithne Lubhéid, "Introduction: Queering Migration and Citizenship," in Queer Migrations: Sexuality, US Citizenship, and Border Crossings, eds. Eithne Lubhéid and Lionel Cantú (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2005): xxiv.
7. Siobhan B. Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000): 5.
8. David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam, and José Esteban Muñoz, "Introduction," What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?," in Social Text 84-5, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2005): 1.
9. Stuart Hall, "Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies," in Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, eds. David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (London: Routledge, 1996): 263-4.
10. I thank Carlos DeCena for asking me to be more explicit about the limitations of hegemonic versions of queer studies.
11. Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004): 6-7.
12. I thank Ryan Fong for pushing me to clarify this critique.
13. Martin F. Manalansan IV, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003): 14.
14. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd, "Introduction" in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, eds. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997): 3.
15. Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, ed. Colin Gordon (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980): 109-10.
16. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (New York: Vintage Books, 1990): 103.
17. Licia Fiol-Matta, A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002): 4.
18. I thank Salvadore Vidal-Ortiz for prompting this observation.
19. Norma Alarcón, "The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism," in Making Face, Making Soul = Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, ed., Gloria Anzaldúa (San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 1990): 357.
20. Foucault, The History of Sexuality, 115.
21. For a discussion of the relationship between theorizations of morality and Foucault's deployment of sexuality, see my article "The Stratifications of Normativity," http://www.rhizomes.net/issue10/ferguson.htm
22. M. Jacqui Alexander, "Not Just Any Body Can Be a Citizen," Feminist Review 48 (Fall 1994): 5-23, at p. 19.
23. Chandan Reddy, "Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family: Reviewing the Case for Homosexuality Asylum in the Context of Family," Social Text 84-5, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2005): 101-19, at p. 110.
24. Gayatri Gopinath, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005): 21.
25. Foucault, The History of Sexuality, 92.
26. Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2001): 77.