Description
In the late 1970s, American sociologist Charles Stember called sexual racism "the emotional barrier to an integrated society." Defining sexual racism as "the sexual rejection of the racial minority," Stember gave name to a social phenomenon epitomized in his time by interracial marriage. Today, our digital dating world has reignited interest in sexual racism through debates over the role of race in partner selection, while studies identify blatant and subtle examples of sexual racism in everyday life and the detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of individuals and our societies. Bringing together a collection of research, personal reflection, and creative work, Sexual Racism and Social Justice provides a comprehensive, in-depth account of sexual racism from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. With an array of methods, disciplines, and positionalities, the volume argues that sexual racism is in the very foundations of our societies, determining the ideas, bodies, and systems positioned as desirable. Chapter authors illuminate new understandings of the relationship between sex and race, arguing that to undesire whiteness is to help undo sexual racism. Ultimately, the volume proposes tangible changes to theoretical, conceptual, and practical work to achieve two primary goals of social justice: eliminating racism in our societies and fostering truly liberated sexual plurality.
Table of Contents
Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sexual Racism?Denton Callander, Pante? Farvid, Amir Baradaran, and Thomas A. VanceSection I: Histories and Theories1. A Queer History of Sexual RacismDenton Callander, Tony Ayres, and Donovan Trott2. A Look Back at the World's First Online Anti-Sexual Racism Campaign: Sexual Racism SuxAndy Quan3. Anti-Black Skin, White Sheets: Challenging Sexual Color-Blindness Through a Sexual Humility FrameworkXiqiao Chen, Jeremy Kelleher, Anthony Boiardo, Dashawn Ealey, and Daniel GaztambidePoetry Interlude: JezebelSynclaire WarrenSection II: Representations4. "I Am Dark and Beautiful": Song of Songs, Audre Lorde, and the Politics of DesireSiam Hatzaw5. White Desirability and the Violent Radicalization of Andrew CunananMarc Milton Ducusin6. Undesiring Whiteness and Undoing the White Gaze in HIV Prevention MarketingIvan Bujan7. Amitis Motevalli: Exorcising OrientalismAnuradha VikramPoetry Interlude: Shea Butter and HoneyIllannah DeshazierSection III: Lived Realities8. "You Just Got To Own It": Maori Girls Un/Doing Settler Colonial Sexuality in AotearoaFern Smith and Jade Le Grice9. Predators and Perpetrators: Cultures of White Settler Violence in So-Called AustraliaMadi Day and Bronwyn Carlson10. Consuming Whiteness/Disciplining DesireGene Lim11. Sexual Racism as White Privilege: The Relational and Psychic Negotiation of Desire, Power, and SexRussell K. RobinsonPoetry Interlude: The ButcherSynclaire WarrenSection IV: Spotlighting the Structural12. Curating Desire: The White Supremacist Grammar of Tagging on PornhubChibundo Egwuatu, Zahra Stardust, Mireille Miller-Young, and Daisy Ducati13. Undesiring Whiteness in the Sex Industry: The Racialized Stratification of Sex Work in Four Distinct Anglo-Legal ContextsPante? Farvid, Sarah Epstein, Leigh Lumpkin, Thyme Canton, and Michelle King14. Sexual Racism and Asian American Egg Donation: Reflections on Experiential AmbivalenceEllen Yom15. Decentering Whiteness in South Africa: Using Empathic Dialogue to Engage With Race, Identity, Privilege, and EntitlementMatthew Rich-Tolsma and Sizwe Mqalo
