Sexual Politics of Empire

Erin L. Durban is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

"A captivating work of cultural history, offering a window into how the nation is perceived by foreign powers as well as how it perceives itself.An inventive and astute dissection of Haiti's evolving notions of sexual identity." --Kirkus Reviews"In The Sexual Politics of Empire, Erin L. Durban asks how same-sex desiring and gender creative Haitians pursue their world-making projects in the midst of the necropolitics of US empire, inviting readers to confront the politics of the present so as to sustain different possible futures."--Janet R. Jakobsen, author of The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics"Durban's pioneering work ventures where angels fear to tread. Context is everything. It is about the dance, a negotiation between our indigenous selves and westernizing forces where new identities live, between the 4 Ms--Masisi, Madivin, Makomè, Miks--and a global LGBT movement."--Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, author of In the Shadow of Powers: Dantes Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought

• AcknowledgmentsDedications Introduction 1 Perverting Haiti: The Transnational Imperialist Discourse of the Black Republic as the Premodern Land of "Voodoo/Vaudoux" 2 The Missionary Position: U.S. Protestant Missionaries and Religious Homophobia 2008 3 Evangelical Christian Homophobia and the Michèle Pierre-Louis Controversy 4 "Zonbi, Zonbi" at the Ghetto Biennale: A Queer Act of Intervention against Postcolonial Homophobia 2010 5 The Sexual Politics of Rescue: The Global LGBTQI and Postcolonial Homophobia after the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti 2013 6 The Emergence of a Social Movement against Homophobia Epilogue: The Transnational #BlackLivesMatter Movement and the Serialization of Black (Queer) Death Notes Bibliography Index