04184oam 2200685 c 450 991047690920332120230120092734.03-8394-4917-010.14361/9783839449172(OCoLC)1248760100(MiAaPQ)EBC6956108(MiAaPQ)EBC6764223(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68113(DE-B1597)534723(DE-B1597)9783839449172(MiAaPQ)EBC30494894(Au-PeEL)EBL30494894(EXLCZ)99545000000003777420220221d2021 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGood White Queers?Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics /Kai Linke1st editionBielefeldtranscript Verlag2021Bielefeldtranscript Verlag2021.1 online resource (332 pages)Queer Studies23Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgements --1 INTRODUCTION --1.1 What to Expect in this Book: A Very Brief Overview --1.2 A Few Words on Formal Decisions --1.3 How I Came to Write this Book --2 THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS --2.1 Why Comics? --2.2 Unequal Distributions of Power, Rights, and Resources --2.3 A Brief History of Intersectional LGBTIQ Politics in the U.S. --3 ALISON BECHDEL'S DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR: A WHITE FANTASY OF A POST-RACIAL LESBIAN COMMUNITY --3.1 A "Chronicle of Lesbian Culture and History" --3.2 A Multicultural Universe with Whiteness at Its Center --3.3 Armchair Anti-Racism: A Post-Racial Lesbian Community in a Racist Society --3.4 White Lesbians as a Better Kind of White --3.5 Political Consequences of Dykes' Armchair Anti-Racism --3.6 Conclusion: When Fantasy Is Read as Fact --4 HOWARD CRUSE'S STUCK RUBBER BABY: HOW 'GAY IS THE NEW BLACK' DISCOURSES SHAPE THE WHITE GAY IMAGINARY --4.1 A Groundbreaking Work --4.2 A Window Seat to History? --4.3 'Gay Is the New Black:' A Dominant Discourse --4.4 Conservative Critiques --4.5 Common Intersectional Critiques --4.6 Further Intersectional Critiques --4.7 Conclusion: Stuck in a White Fantasy --5 JAIME CORTEZ'S SEXILE/SEXILIO: UNLEARNING HOMONATIONALISM AND DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES --5.1 "Decentering Whiteness" --5.2 Disidentifications with Homonationalist Discourses --5.3 Centering Resilience --5.4 By Way of Conclusion: Reading Sexile/Sexilio from a Place of (Relative) Privilege --6 CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF WHITE LGBTIQ SELF-REPRESENTATIONS --List of Works CitedHow 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.Queer StudiesQueer comic books, strips, etcQueer theoryRacismWhite peopleRace identityComicsRacismWhitenessQueer TheorySexualityGenderMediaComicGender StudiesCultural StudiesQueer comic books, strips, etc.Queer theory.Racism.White peopleRace identity.741.535266Linke Kai978186DE-B1597DE-B1597ACMRBOOK9910476909203321Good White Queers2229156UNINA