ISBN:
9781479846757
,
1479846759
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 179 pages)
Series Statement:
Sexual cultures
Parallel Title:
Print version Taste for brown bodies
DDC:
306.7662
Keywords:
Gays in popular culture
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African American gays
;
Minority gays
;
Gay men
;
Gay men
;
Gays in popular culture
;
African American gays
;
Minority gays
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
African American gays
;
Gay men
;
Gays in popular culture
;
Minority gays
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In 'A Taste for Brown Bodies', Hiram Perez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories - the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy - Perez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence
Description / Table of Contents:
The queer afterlife of Billy BuddGoing to meet the man in Abu Ghraib -- The global taste for queer -- You can have my brown body and eat it, too! -- Gay cowboys close to home.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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