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[Review Of] Joan Nagel. Race, Ethnicity, And Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers, Enrique Morales-Díaz
[Review Of] Joan Nagel. Race, Ethnicity, And Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers, Enrique Morales-Díaz
Ethnic Studies Review
One of the most significant points about Joane Nagel's text is its broad approach to the idea that ethnicity is sexualized and that the boundaries that on the surface seem to separate the two concepts are actually extremely thin and transparent. Thus, according to Nagel, "Ethnicity and sexuality are strained, but not strange bedfellows" (14). She supports this statement throughout her text, providing specific examples to argue her case. Her approach to the subject at hand also coincides with her goals for the book, "to illustrate the power and ubiquity of sexuality as a feature of racial, ethnic, and national …
In Search Of A "Singular I:" A Structurational Analysis Of Passing, Dawkins Marcia Alesan
In Search Of A "Singular I:" A Structurational Analysis Of Passing, Dawkins Marcia Alesan
Ethnic Studies Review
It is easy to envision the socio-cultural phenomenon of passing as a relic of a bygone era, yet passing is markedly more. From a historical perspective, "passing-as-white" is a strategy of representation through which light-skinned, white-looking, legally non-white Americans attempt(ed) to reconcile "two unreconciled ideals:" their limited opportunities as non-white people in a segregated society with their idealized life goals as full American citizens (DuBois, 1903; Candy, 1998). Recent scholarship on the phenomenon explains that passing is more than a masquerade. Passing can be accidental, incidental, or a committed lifestyle that is noted: when people effectively present themselves as other …