Deadly and Slick

Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race

AvSita Balani

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most intimate and essential: sexuality. Modernity inaugurates a new political subject made legible as an individual through the nuclear family, sexual adventure and the pursuit of romantic love. By examining the regulation of sexual life at Britain's borders, in colonial India, and through the functioning of the welfare state, marriage laws, education, and counterterrorism, Balani reveals that sexuality has become fatally intertwined with the making of race.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-16
Mått:140 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Verso Books
ISBN:9781839761027

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Dr. Sita Balani is a lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the co-author of Empire's Endgame. She has published in Vice, Tribune, the White Review, Novara, Salvage, Ceasefire, Five Dials, Wasafiri, and Open Democracy. She has appeared on BBC3 and Novara Media, and is a regular speaker at events on anti-racism, feminism, education, sexuality, and colonial history.

Recensioner i media

Through an astounding display of Sita Balani's skill and care with the craft of writing, Deadly and Slick collapses the binary categories of race, gender and sexuality to show how they are co-constitutive of each other. Read this book if you want to break through the myopia of more shallow discussions about how identity interacts with politics and follow Balani into deeper analytical realms.

Innehållsförteckning

I1 Sexual Modernity2 Sexual Science3 Racial Hygiene4 National FamilyII5 Divide and Assimilate6 Identity Crisis7 Dangerous Brown Women8 Think of the ChildrenCoda: The Promise that Would Never Be Kept