Deadly and slick : sexual modernity and the making of race

"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. Moderni...

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VerfasserIn: Balani, Sita
Ort / Verlag / Datum:London : Verso, 2023
Erscheinungsjahr:2023
Sprache:Englisch
Klassifikation:305.8
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Beschreibung:xxvii, 195 Seiten; 21 cm
Anmerkungen:Enthält Literaturangaben
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Zusammenfassung:"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."--Page [4] of cover
ISBN:1839761024
9781839761027
AC Nummer:AC16967346
Hierarchiestufe:Monografie
Erscheinungsform:Buch
Inhalt:Text
Medientyp:Analog
Datenträger:Analog