No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, the coeditor of Blacktino Queer Performance and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, all also published by Duke University Press.
The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You’re Dead: Spectacular Absence and Post-Racialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory
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Published:September 2016
Alison Reed, 2016. "The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You’re Dead: Spectacular Absence and Post-Racialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory", No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, E. Patrick Johnson
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Using James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time as a point of departure, Alison Reed engages the neoliberal bent in queer studies by highlighting the ways it unwittingly deploys racialized bodies as “spectacular markers of queerness,” the practice of employing race as theoretical fetish. Through what she names as a conflation of race and racism, Reed argues that (white) queer theory often undermines the eradication of institutionalized racism and, instead, buttresses the very oppressive structures it purports to undermine through its co-optation of civil rights strategies, discourses, and theories. Ultimately, Reed gestures toward alternative frames for sustained queer engagements with race,...
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