Books in the Sexual Cultures series

Advances a rethinking of law as capacious rhetorics of citizenship, justice, equality, and freedom.

Proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures.

Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.

Addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts?

""Becoming Human" explores matter and meaning in an antiblack world"--

"Keeling's "Queer Times, Black Futures" explores the issues of gender and race"--

Examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space

Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.

Combining psychoanalytic, literary and queer theory, Paul Morrison seeks to account for the explanatory power attributed to homosexuality and its relationship to compulsory heterosexuality. He presents a scathing indictment of psychoanalysis and its impact on the study of sexuality.

The author documents the ways in which identity formation and representation within the gay Latinidad population impacts gender and cultural studies today.

Brings together theories of passing across a host of disciplines from critical race theory and lesbian and gay studies, to literary theory and religious studies

Revised edition of the author's Cruising utopia, c2009.

Contends that our notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor have they simply been forced onto the black community. This work also argues that black American intellectuals have actively chosen the identity schemes that seem to us so natural.

The first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visability and cultural impact. The author looks as such pop icons as JLo and Ricky Martin as well as West Side Story.

One of a series which promotes scholarship about the experiences of sexual minorities, this book explores the social and cultural significance of the private. The author proposes that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial - and sexual - minority status.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single must be in search of a partner

Dwight A. McBride examines the quiet way discriminatory hiring practices and racist ad campaigns seep into and reflect malevolent undertones in American culture. McBride maintains that issues of race and sexuality are often subtle and always messy, and his compelling new book does not offer simple answers.

The LGBT agenda has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. This book contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a 'not yet here' that critically engages pragmatic presentism.