The erotic life of racism / Sharon Patricia Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Sharon Patricia.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Prejudices--United States.

Prejudices.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 the ways that 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 Patricia 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 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"--Publisher description.

Contents:

Race : there's no place like "beyond"

Desire, or "A bit of the other"

S.H.E. : reproducing discretion as the better part of (queer) valor.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613582478

9780822395157

0822395150

9781280487248

1280487240

OCLC:

787874395