Good White Queers? : Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics

Good White Queers? Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics

How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Linke, Kai, author (author)
Formato: Tesis
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
Bielefeld 2021.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Queer Studies
Materias:
Queer comic books, strips, etc.
Queer theory.
Racism.
White people > Race identity.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009653891406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 What to Expect in this Book: A Very Brief Overview
  • 1.2 A Few Words on Formal Decisions
  • 1.3 How I Came to Write this Book
  • 2 THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
  • 2.1 Why Comics?
  • 2.2 Unequal Distributions of Power, Rights, and Resources
  • 2.3 A Brief History of Intersectional LGBTIQ Politics in the U.S.
  • 3 ALISON BECHDEL'S DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR: A WHITE FANTASY OF A POST-RACIAL LESBIAN COMMUNITY
  • 3.1 A "Chronicle of Lesbian Culture and History"
  • 3.2 A Multicultural Universe with Whiteness at Its Center
  • 3.3 Armchair Anti-Racism: A Post-Racial Lesbian Community in a Racist Society
  • 3.4 White Lesbians as a Better Kind of White
  • 3.5 Political Consequences of Dykes' Armchair Anti-Racism
  • 3.6 Conclusion: When Fantasy Is Read as Fact
  • 4 HOWARD CRUSE'S STUCK RUBBER BABY: HOW 'GAY IS THE NEW BLACK' DISCOURSES SHAPE THE WHITE GAY IMAGINARY
  • 4.1 A Groundbreaking Work
  • 4.2 A Window Seat to History?
  • 4.3 'Gay Is the New Black:' A Dominant Discourse
  • 4.4 Conservative Critiques
  • 4.5 Common Intersectional Critiques
  • 4.6 Further Intersectional Critiques
  • 4.7 Conclusion: Stuck in a White Fantasy
  • 5 JAIME CORTEZ'S SEXILE/SEXILIO: UNLEARNING HOMONATIONALISM AND DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES
  • 5.1 "Decentering Whiteness"
  • 5.2 Disidentifications with Homonationalist Discourses
  • 5.3 Centering Resilience
  • 5.4 By Way of Conclusion: Reading Sexile/Sexilio from a Place of (Relative) Privilege
  • 6 CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF WHITE LGBTIQ SELF-REPRESENTATIONS
  • List of Works Cited

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