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 Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 9 - 12 -
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 What to Expect in this Book: A Very Brief Overview
Seiten 13 - 16 -
1.2 A Few Words on Formal Decisions
Seiten 16 - 17 -
1.3 How I Came to Write this Book
Seiten 17 - 20 -
2 THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
2.1 Why Comics?
Seiten 21 - 39 -
2.2 Unequal Distributions of Power, Rights, and Resources
Seiten 40 - 84 -
2.3 A Brief History of Intersectional LGBTIQ Politics in the U.S.
Seiten 84 - 102 -
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"
Seiten 103 - 106 -
3.2 A Multicultural Universe with Whiteness at Its Center
Seiten 107 - 121 -
3.3 Armchair Anti-Racism: A Post-Racial Lesbian Community in a Racist Society
Seiten 121 - 136 -
3.4 White Lesbians as a Better Kind of White
Seiten 136 - 156 -
3.5 Political Consequences of Dykes' Armchair Anti-Racism
Seiten 157 - 179 -
3.6 Conclusion: When Fantasy Is Read as Fact
Seiten 179 - 182 -
4 HOWARD CRUSE'S STUCK RUBBER BABY: HOW 'GAY IS THE NEW BLACK' DISCOURSES SHAPE THE WHITE GAY IMAGINARY
4.1 A Groundbreaking Work
Seiten 183 - 185 -
4.2 A Window Seat to History?
Seiten 185 - 188 -
4.3 'Gay Is the New Black:' A Dominant Discourse
Seiten 189 - 191 -
4.4 Conservative Critiques
Seiten 191 - 192 -
4.5 Common Intersectional Critiques
Seiten 192 - 212 -
4.6 Further Intersectional Critiques
Seiten 212 - 249 -
4.7 Conclusion: Stuck in a White Fantasy
Seiten 249 - 252 -
5 JAIME CORTEZ'S SEXILE/SEXILIO: UNLEARNING HOMONATIONALISM AND DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES
5.1 "Decentering Whiteness"
Seiten 253 - 255 -
5.2 Disidentifications with Homonationalist Discourses
Seiten 255 - 286 -
5.3 Centering Resilience
Seiten 287 - 296 -
5.4 By Way of Conclusion: Reading Sexile/Sexilio from a Place of (Relative) Privilege
Seiten 296 - 298 -
6 CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF WHITE LGBTIQ SELF-REPRESENTATIONS
Seiten 299 - 304 -
List of Works Cited
Seiten 305 - 332
20 April 2021, 332 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4917-8
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