“Look, a Negro!” The famous deictic cited by Frantz Fanon indicates both the spectacular and banal appearance of racial blackness in our field of vision. …
This dissertation examines the claim that a so-called "explosion of gay visibility" occurred during the 1990s. I question the assertion that the increasing inclusion of …
“The Melodramatics of Queer Race” is an investigation of media and performance forms dismissed as “minor”—melodramatic, trashy, or kitschy—and their re-valuations by queerly racialized subjects. …