Good White Queers? - Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics

How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Kai Linke, born in 1981, works as an educator in Berlin. He received his PhD in American studies from Humboldt University in Berlin. His work focuses on queer and trans issues, racism, and whiteness.

Zusammenfassung

How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.

Zusatztext

Besprochen in:
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45/16 (2022)

Bericht

Besprochen in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45/16 (2022)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Linke Kai, Kai Linke
• Verlag: Transcript
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.03.2021
• EAN: 9783837649178
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4917-8
• Seiten: 332
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 23 mm x 230 mm
• Gewicht: 513 g
• Illustration: Dispersionsbindung, 40 SW-Abbildungen, 1 Farbabbildung
• Serien: Queer Studies; Queer Studies (COL)
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien, Comic, Gender Studies, Kunst: Graphic Novels, Mangas, Gender, Media, Cultural Studies, Queer Theory, Sexuality, Racism, auseinandersetzen, Graphic Novel und Manga-Kunst, Whiteness