Book Review: Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private

be more palatable to heterosexuals and how these sensibilities have been increasingly whitened through the erasure and exclusion of people of color. This assimilation has only further complicated the fight for sexual and racial equity, but also as Orne notes, “Equality has not brought liberation. It has merely separated the few to be lifted up, as long as they act like their former oppressors” (p. 102). Home and Community for Queer Men of Color is a strong volume of critical reading for scholars who hope to work at the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender. This book contributes to a growing section of the discipline focused on the emergence and contours of racism, heterosexism, and studies of belonging. Perhaps the most glaring omission or oversight of many chapters is the taken-for-grantedness of masculinity and gender. The book is squarely focused on men of color, but few chapters really contend with the ways that masculinity and gender itself is constituted in the intersection of race and sexuality. Chapters throughout will be useful as course readings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The authors in this volume provide methodological, theoretical, and empirical insights across the many chapters of the book and will serve as wonderful guides to future scholars who will take up the study of experiences of racism and heterosexism. As Han summarizes in the conclusion to the volume, “the authors [in this collection] have centered race in sexuality scholarship and centered sexuality in race scholarship” (pg. 187). All in all, the text is a much-needed intervention, and, to echo Han’s closing thoughts, is a step in the right direction.