Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization

by Lisa Lowe, J. Jack Halberstam, Victor Bascara, et al.

Book Overview

Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the "strange affinities," afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations. The nationalist and identity-based concepts of race underlying the mid-twentieth-century movements for decolonization and social change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234985X
• ISBN13: 9780822349853
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"