Feeling of Kinship Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

Name: Feeling of Kinship Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
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ISBN: 9780822347323

ISBN-10: 0822347326

ISBN-13: 9780822347323

Edition: 2010

Authors: David L. Eng

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InThe Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism," the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our "colorblind" age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark legal decision overturning Texas's antisodomy statute, Eng reveals how the ghosts of miscegenation…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.132
Language: English