Lexington Books
Pages: 172
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Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-3714-8 • Hardback • December 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-3716-2 • Paperback • February 2020 • $43.99 • (£35.00)
Damien W. Riggs is associate professor in social work at Flinders University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.
Chapter 1: Gay Racism by Denton Callander, Martin Holt, and Christy Newman
Chapter 2: Islamophobia, Racialization, and Mis-Interpellation in Gay Men’s Communities by Ibrahim Abraham
Chapter 3: Gay Orientalism by Jacks ChengChapter 4: Homonationalism and Failure to Interpellate: The “Queer Muslim Woman” in Ontario’s “Sex-Ed Debates” by Sonny Dhoot
Chapter 5: “Not Into Chopsticks or Curries”: Erotic Capital and the Psychic Life of Racism on Grindr by Emerich Daroya
Chapter 6: Coping with Racism and Racial Trauma: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of How Gay Men from the African Diaspora Experience and Negotiate Racist Encounters by Sulaimon Giwa
Chapter 7: “It Can’t Possibly be Racism!”: The White Racial Frame and Resistance to Sexual Racism by Jesus Gregorio Smith
Chapter 8: Recentering Asianness in the Discourse on Homonationalism by Alexandra Marie Rivera and Dale Dagar Maglalang
Damien Riggs has assembled an international collection of exciting, new voices that reinvigorate discussions on racism in gay men’s communities. Given the resurgence of populist nationalism across Western nations, this is a timely reminder of the difficulties many of us face at the intersections of race and sexuality. This rich book examines a range of racisms (Islamophobia, Orientalism, homonationalism, and sexual racism), revealing the interconnections and overlaps between interpersonal, local, communal, and national contexts and how these in turn shape different experiences of both homophobia and racism. Riggs has consistently pushed the boundaries of psychology and social work in conversation with critical race and sexuality studies. He has done it again with this book.
— Gilbert Caluya, University of Melbourne
This accessibly written collection offers a necessary and timely account of gay white racism, with much needed attention to Islamophobia, homonationalism, and sexual racism in the digital age. The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities demonstrates the continued importance of contested libertarian accounts of racialized, sexual desire, showing unequivocally the lines between individual subjectivities and the power structures that shape them. This volume is both comprehensive and nuanced: in addition to acknowledging the continuities between racist apparatuses in general and in gay racism, in particular, it also attends to racism’s specific articulations, enactments, and effects on diverse gay men’s communities, including resistance to and even appropriations of racism. This book’s political commitment is unflinching.
— Ian Barnard, Chapman University, and author of Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory