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Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique

Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique

Ferguson, Roderick A.

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Series: Critical American Studies

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ISBN10: 0816641293
ISBN13: 9780816641291
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Dec 10 2003
Pages: 175
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture

The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture--sexual difference--can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. He shows how canonical sociology--Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Julius Wilson--has measured African Americans's unsuitability for a liberal capitalist order in terms of their adherence to the norms of a heterosexual and patriarchal nuclear family model. In short, to the extent that African Americans's culture and behavior deviated from those norms, they would not achieve economic and racial equality.

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