Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men's Communities (eBook)

Damien W. Riggs (Herausgeber)

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2017
172 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3715-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Exploring tensions within gay men’s communities in regard to race, The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities examines the operations of racialized desire, highlighting the considerable diversity among gay men’s experiences.

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The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men's Communities engages in the necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of racialized desire as it circulates among gay men. In exploring such desire, the contributors to this collection consider the intersections of privilege and marginalization in the context of gay men's lives, and in so doing, argue that as much as experiences of discrimination on the basis of sexuality are shared among many gay men, experiences of discrimination within gay communities are equally as common. Focusing specifically on racialization, the contributors offer insight as to how hierarchies, inequalities, and practices of exclusion serve to bolster the central position accorded to certain groups of gay men at the expense of other groups. Considering how racial desire operates within gay communities allows the contributors to connect contemporary struggles for inclusion and recognition with ongoing histories of marginalization and exclusion. The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men's Communities is an important intervention that disputes the claim that gay communities are primarily organized around acceptance and homogeneity and instead demonstrates the considerable diversity and ongoing tensions that mark gay men's relationships with one another.

Autor

Damien W. Riggs is associate professor in social work at Flinders University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Gay Racism by Denton Callander, Martin Holt, and Christy NewmanChapter 2: Islamophobia, Racialization, and Mis-Interpellation in Gay Men’s Communities by Ibrahim AbrahamChapter 3: Gay Orientalism by Jacks ChengChapter 4: Homonationalism and Failure to Interpellate: The “Queer Muslim Woman” in Ontario’s “Sex-Ed Debates” by Sonny DhootChapter 5: “Not Into Chopsticks or Curries”: Erotic Capital and the Psychic Life of Racism on Grindr by Emerich DaroyaChapter 6: Coping with Racism and Racial Trauma: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of How Gay Men from the African Diaspora Experience and Negotiate Racist Encounters by Sulaimon GiwaChapter 7: “It Can’t Possibly be Racism!”: The White Racial Frame and Resistance to Sexual Racism by Jesus Gregorio SmithChapter 8: Recentering Asianness in the Discourse on Homonationalism by Alexandra Marie Rivera and Dale Dagar Maglalang

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
• Co-Autor: Ibrahim Abraham, Damien W. Riggs, Alexandra Marie Rivera, Jesus Gregorio Smith, Denton Callander, Jacks Cheng, Emerich Daroya, Sonny Dhoot, Sulaimon Giwa, Martin Holt, Dale Dagar Maglalang, Christy Newman
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Community • Critical Race Studies • Discrimination • Erotic Capital • Gay men • Gender & Sexuality Studies • marginalization • Racism • Sexual Racism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3715-4 / 1498537154
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3715-5 / 9781498537155