The Color of Desire : The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany After 1970 / Christopher Ewing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ewing, Christopher, 1989- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Germany (West)--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Germany--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities, Black--Germany (West)--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities, Black.

Sexual minorities, Black--Germany--Social conditions.

Gay liberation movement--Germany (West).

Gay liberation movement.

Gay liberation movement--Germany.

Germany (West)--Race relations--Political aspects.

Germany (West).

Germany--Race relations--Political aspects.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages)

Other Title:

The colour of desire

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The Color of Desire tells the story of how, in the aftermath of gay liberation, race played a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of queer, German politics. Focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher Ewing charts both the entrenchment of racisms within white, queer scenes and the formation of new, antiracist movements that contested overlapping marginalizations.Far from being discrete political trajectories, racist and antiracist politics were closely connected, as activists worked across groups to develop their visions for queer politics. Ewing describes not only how AIDS workers, gay tourists, white lesbians, queer immigrants, and Black feminists were connected in unexpected ways but also how they developed contradictory concerns that comprised the full landscape of queer politics. Out of these connections, which often exceeded the bounds of the Federal Republic, arose new forms of queer fascism as well as their multiple, antiracist contestations. Both unsettled the appeals to national belonging, or "homonationalism," on which many white queer activists based their claims. Thus, the story of the making of homonationalism is also the story of its unmaking...-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: New year's eve, 1970

Part I: An international movement

1. Sex tourism in the 1970s and the end of permissive Islam: disappointed in Casablanca

2. The European exception: international solidarity between gay liberation and the Iranian revolution

3. Antiracism and the AIDS crisis, or homonationalism's rocky start

Part II: Activism and the state

4. Making homophobic migrants out of Neo-Nazis: gay rights after unification

5. Antiracist gains and the emergence of queer Fascism in the twenty-first century: homophobia's side effects

Epilogue: What happened to homonationalism?

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on April, 2, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501773389

1501773380

9781501773372

1501773372