ISBN:
1839761024
,
9781839761027
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvii, 195 Seiten
,
21 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Balani, Sita Deadly and Slick
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Race
;
Sex Social aspects
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
;
Geopolitics
;
Migration, immigration & emigration
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Race
;
Sex - Social aspects
;
Migration, immigration and emigration
;
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
;
Geopolitics
Abstract:
"If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most intimate and essential: sexuality. Modernity inaugurates a new political subject made legible as an individual through the nuclear family, sexual adventure and the pursuit of romantic love. By examining the regulation of sexual life at Britain's borders, in colonial India, and through the functioning of the welfare state, marriage laws, education, and counterterrorism, Balani reveals that sexuality has become fatally intertwined with the making of race."--Page [4] of cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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