

Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality

Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers

Joane Nagel

Publication Date - February 2003

ISBN: 9780195127478

324 pages
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Retail Price to Students: $99.99


What's sex got to do with race? With ethnicity? With nationalism? What do race, ethnicity, and nationalism have to do with sex? Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality addresses these questions, exploring the intimate intersections and forbidden frontiers where ethnicity and sexuality meet face-to-face. Through numerous examples from the U.S. and beyond-and from the past and the present-the book illustrates the power of sex to shape ideas and feelings about race, ethnicity, and the nation. It shows how sexual images, fears, and desires help form racial, ethnic, and national stereotypes, differences, and conflicts.
In this unique work, Joane Nagel demonstrates how ethnicity and sexuality join hands to fashion new, hybrid identities, communities, and cultures; how the volatile mixture of race and sex can spark ethnic violence; and how ethnosexual encounters can simultaneously resist and reinforce racial, ethnic, and national boundaries. She skillfully blends styles of inquiry and interpretation from the social sciences and the humanities to craft a convincing and illuminating account using images, poetry, fieldwork, Internet postings, interviews, literature, ethnographies, historical texts, archival documents, biographies, census data, journals, and personal accounts. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in race and ethnicity; sexuality; race/gender/class; gender studies; ethnic studies; multicultural and diversity studies; or globalization studies.

Table of Contents

    Introduction: Sex Matters: Racing Sex and Sexing Race
    1. Ethnosexual Frontiers: Cruising and Crossing Intimate Intersections
    2. Constructing Ethnicity and Sexuality: Building Boundaries and Identities
    3. Sex and Conquest: Domination and Desire on Ethnosexual Frontiers
    4. Sex and Race: The Color of Sex in America
    5. Sex and Nationalism: Sexually Imagined Communities
    6. Sex and War: Fighting Men, Comfort Women, and the Military-Sexual Complex
    7. Sex and Tourism: Travel and Romance in Ethnosexual Destinations
    8. Sex and Globalization: The Global Economy of Desire
    Conclusion: Sex-Baiting and Race-Baiting: The Politics of Ethnosexuality

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