Teaching the queer character of racism

Abstract

My argument will be straightforward if queer: racism is, in some sense, an "affair" between men. Of course, racism is not only an affair between men. Women have been very much victims: White men's assaults on Black women from slavery to the present is, for instance, well known. Nor I am suggesting that "race" can be reduced to gender; it cannot. But it does have to do with sex and desire, as the study of lynching and interracial prisons make plain. © 2006 Springer.