{"title":"\"I Am a Man\": The Queer Politics of Race","authors":"William F. Pinar","doi":"10.1177/153270860200200112","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this study of the gender of racial politics and violence in the United States, the author identifies a mangled and repressed homoeroticism lacing White men's hatred of Blacks. He has chosen lynching and prison rape to make explicit the homoeroticism that laces race relations and structures to the gender of racial politics and violence in this country. Despite the radical discontinuities between various historical periods from the antebellum and post-Reconstruction South to post-1960s urban prisons, there are certain nightmarish continuities or historical \"throughlines\" in American racial politics and violence, throughlines that express the historical and structural crisis of masculinity in the United States.","PeriodicalId":46996,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","volume":"42 1","pages":"113 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153270860200200112","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this study of the gender of racial politics and violence in the United States, the author identifies a mangled and repressed homoeroticism lacing White men's hatred of Blacks. He has chosen lynching and prison rape to make explicit the homoeroticism that laces race relations and structures to the gender of racial politics and violence in this country. Despite the radical discontinuities between various historical periods from the antebellum and post-Reconstruction South to post-1960s urban prisons, there are certain nightmarish continuities or historical "throughlines" in American racial politics and violence, throughlines that express the historical and structural crisis of masculinity in the United States.
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The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.