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Chapter 3 - Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicities

Enactments of Queer of Color Critique

from Part II - Confluences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2020

Siobhan B. Somerville
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Summary

Queer of color critique emerged from within and across the epistemic fractures created by a set of late twentieth-century projects – such as queer studies, postcolonial studies, ethnic studies, indigenous studies, and feminist studies – that forcibly made visible the western settler-colonial white-male heterosexual social order that both liberal and radical critiques privileged, perpetuated, or ignored. It contributed to these interdisciplinary fields by stressing the co-constitutive weave of normalizing power, examined by post-structuralist queer critiques, with social and state dominative powers, which have been the focus of women of color and third world feminist critiques of heteropatriarchy, the “feminization” of transnationalized labor, and state/carceral management of de- and post-industrialization. Queer of color critiques identify aesthetics and politics that defy liberal and radical conceptions of engaged social critique and the (hetero)normative field of the “political” they enfranchise, secure, circulate, and expand through state apparatuses that violate and stigmatize our varied relatedness.

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Print publication year: 2020

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Alexander, M. Jacqui. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anzaldúa, Gloria, and Moraga, Cherríe, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.Google Scholar
Driskill, Qwo-Li, Finley, Chris, Gilley, Brian Joseph, and Morgensen, Scott Lauria, eds. Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.Google Scholar
El-Tayeb, Fatima. European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gopinath, Gayatri. Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Hong, Grace Kyungwon. Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1984.Google Scholar
Stanley, Eric A., and Smith, Nat, eds. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2015.Google Scholar

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