The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities PDF
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The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities Critical Perspectives on Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies SeriesEditors AJJones(Retiredacademicandpsychologist) DamienRiggs(FlindersUniversity) RebeccaStringer(UniversityofOtago) MissionStatement Theseriesseekstopublishscholarshipthatengagescriticallywiththesocialandpolitical usesofpsychologicalknowledge,andwithtransformativeparadigmsthataddressobsta- clestochange.Theseriesisopentoawiderangeofapproachesthatmaybeclassifiedas “psychological,”includingmanuscriptproposalsthatfocusonwell-being,subjectivities, clinicalpractice,discourse,andtheirintersections. AdvisoryBoardMembers MegJohnBarker,VirginiaBraun,ChrisBrickell,HeatherBrook,VictoriaClarke,Char- lottePatterson,ElizabethPeel,EstherRothblum,andGarethTreharne BooksinSeries ThePsychicLifeofRacisminGayMen’sCommunities,EditedbyDamienRiggs The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities Edited by Damien W. Riggs LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2018byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Riggs,DamienW.,editor. Title:Thepsychiclifeofracismingaymen’scommunities/editedbyDamienW.Riggs. Description:Lanham:LexingtonBooks,[2017]|Series:Criticalperspectivesonthepsychologyof sexuality,gender,andqueerstudies|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2017050917(print)|LCCN2017043594(ebook)|ISBN9781498537155(Elec- tronic)|ISBN9781498537148(cloth:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Gayculture.|Racism. Classification:LCCHQ76.96(print)|LCCHQ76.96.P792017(ebook)|DDC306.76/62089--dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017050917 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction:TowardsaTypologyofRacismsinGayMen’s Communities ix DamienW.Riggs 1 GayRacism 1 DentonCallander,MartinHolt,andChristyNewman 2 Islamophobia,Racialization,andMis-InterpellationinGay Men’sCommunities 15 IbrahimAbraham 3 GayOrientalism 33 JacksCheng 4 HomonationalismandFailuretoInterpellate:The“Queer MuslimWoman”inOntario’s“Sex-EdDebates” 49 SonnyDhoot 5 “NotIntoChopsticksorCurries”:EroticCapitalandthe PsychicLifeofRacismonGrindr 67 EmerichDaroya 6 CopingwithRacismandRacialTrauma:AnInterpretative PhenomenologicalAnalysisofHowGayMenfromthe AfricanDiasporaExperienceandNegotiateRacist Encounters 81 SulaimonGiwa 7 “ItCan’tPossiblyBeRacism!”:TheWhiteRacialFrameand ResistancetoSexualRacism 105 JesusGregorioSmith 8 RecenteringAsiannessintheDiscourseon Homonationalism 123 AlexandraMarieRiveraandDaleDagarMaglalang Conclusion:Gaps,Questions,andResistance 137 DamienW.Riggs Index 147 AbouttheContributors 153 v Acknowledgments Aseditor ofthiscollection,Ibeginbyacknowledgingthesovereigntyof the Kaurna people, the First Nations people upon whose land I live and work. Thanks must go to Amy King at Rowman & Littlefield for providing initial support for this project, and more latterly to Kasey Beduhn for seeingtheprojectthroughtocompletion.ThanksalsotoRebeccaStringer and AL Jones, my series co-editors, for believing in and supporting this project.Finally,thanksmustgotoClaireBartholomaeus,forsothorough- ly proofing the chapters, for attending to referencing and style, and for constructingtheindex. This bookwastheoutcomeofadecadeofconversationswithpeople about racism in gay men’s communities. Specifically, Aileen Moreton- Robinson, Fiona Nicoll, Donna McCormack, Derek Hook, Nathaniel AdamTobiasColeman,BrodieMcGee,JoannaMcIntyre,andMarthaAu- goustinos. Earlier versions of some of the ideas that informed this book were shared with audiences at the 2012 Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association conference, the 2006 Society of Australa- sian Social Psychologists Conference, the 2006 Global Queeries Confer- ence,andthe2006HistoricisingWhitenessConference. I owe a debt to all of the contributors who wrote chapters for this book, including those working to very tight deadlines. It was a pleasure toworkwithyouall,andtobeabletopublishsuchexcitingandstimulat- ingideasalongsideyou. vii
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