ISBN:
9783825365158
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (258 p)
Series Statement:
American Studies – A Monograph Series v.265
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kiesling, Elena Aesthetics of Coalition and Protest : The Imagined Queer Community
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Gender identity--Political aspects--United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume examines identity and community through the intersection of queerness and race. The growing incorporation of white queer subjects into the socio-cultural and political landscape of the U.S. results in the usage of the queer community as a marker of progressiveness for the nation and in an increasing centrality of whiteness within the community and its surrounding politics. Can this queer community still undermine existing normative structures of whiteness and heteronormativity or does it simply reinforce them through universalizing queerness for the sake of legal and social reform that ultimately benefit only a few? Through the analysis of queer of color film, this book imagines the possibility of a pan-ethnic queer community, while simultaneously questioning the juxtaposition of a de-essential/anti-identity concept like queer and an essential concept like community. It troubles the intersection of queerness and race and even intersectionality itself.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introducing the Queer Community -- 1.1.1 Is a Pan-Ethnic Queer Community Possible? -- 1.1.2 Community, Identity, and the Nation -- 1.1.3 The Social, the Cultural, and the Political -- 1.2 Research in the Borderlands -- 1.2.1 Community Studies -- 1.2.2 Visual Cultural Studies -- 1.2.3 Transnational American Studies -- 1.2.4 Multiple Identity -Racializing Queerness/ Queering Race -- 1.2.4.1 Ethnic Studies -- 1.2.4.2 Women of Color Feminism
Description / Table of Contents:
Black Is…Black Ain't -- 2.2.2 Citizenship, Belonging, and Collective Memory in Milind Soman Made Me Gay -- 2.2.3 Silent Erasure in Between Places -- 2.3 Community as Assemblage
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Aesthetics of Coalition and Protest -- 3.1 The Complexity of Change -- 3.2 Queer Film -- 3.2.1 Queer of Color Film -- 3.2.2 Queer Film Festivals and Community -- 3.2.3 Film Material -- 3.3 Memory, Identity, and Community -- 3.3.1 Collective Memory and Multiple Identity -- 3.3.2 Queer Ethnic Memory in Brother to Brother -- 3.3.2.1 The Unintended Audience -- 3.3.2.2 Narratives of the Past -- 3.3.2.3 Richard Bruce Nugent -- 3.3.2.4 Black Queer Identity in "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" -- 3.3.2.5 The Hierarchization of Identity
Description / Table of Contents:
3.4 Non-Traditional Gender and Sexuality in The Aggressives -- 3.4.1 Documenting The Aggressives -- 3.4.2 Complex Identifications -- 3.4.3 The Invisibility of Blackness -- 3.4.4 Black (Female) Masculinity -- 3.4.5 Colorblindness -- 3.4.6 Realness -- 3.4.7 Creating Community -- 3.4.7.1 Belonging -- 3.4.7.2 Queer Diaspora -- 3.4.7.3 Alternative Communities -- 3.5 Wild Alliances -- 3.5.1 Wildness-the Party and Movie -- 3.5.2 Queer Ethnography -- 3.5.3 Safe Spaces -- 3.5.4 Critical Trans Politics
Description / Table of Contents:
3.5.5 Negotiating Safe Space, Community, and Identity -- 3.5.6 Beyond Wildness -- 3.5.7 Coalition Through Difference -- 4 Conclusion -- List of Works Cited
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