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Author: Sharon Patricia Holland
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9780822352068
ISBN 10: 0822352060
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 13 April 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Sharon Patricia Holland's brilliant, provocative study challenges cultural theory by galvanizing a bold new conversation about the too-familiar realities of racism as manifested through everyday 'erotic' attachments, capaciously defined. As the book pointedly tracks the personal, bodily, familial, generational, institutional, and symbolic vectors of desire as implicated in racist ways of being, it brings into refocus a range of concerns - biology, touch, hate and love speech, blood relations, the forbidden, violence, miscegenation, liberal guilt and blame - that powerfully address the persistent pull of racism's ordinariness in a culture that ostensibly desires to move beyond race. This is next-wave feminism, queer studies, and race theory at its best. Marlon B. Ross, author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era In The Erotic Life of Racism, Sharon Patricia Holland investigates the relation between the erotic and race in cultural theory. The objective of the book is both to counter the prevalent 'post racial' ethos of contemporary American society by showing the continued relevance of the black/white binery, and to investigate various couplings and de-couplings of race and sexuality in the academy. - Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, 2013
Sharon Patricia Holland's brilliant, provocative study challenges cultural theory by galvanizing a bold new conversation about the too-familiar realities of racism as manifested through everyday 'erotic' attachments, capaciously defined. As the book pointedly tracks the personal, bodily, familial, generational, institutional, and symbolic vectors of desire as implicated in racist ways of being, it brings into refocus a range of concerns--biology, touch, hate and love speech, blood relations, the forbidden, violence, miscegenation, liberal guilt and blame--that powerfully address the persistent pull of racism's ordinariness in a culture that ostensibly desires to move beyond race. This is next-wave feminism, queer studies, and race theory at its best. --Marlon B. Ross, author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Author Information
Sharon Patricia Holland is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and Black Subjectivity and the coeditor of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, both also published by Duke University Press.
