Sita Balani

Deadly and Slick (eBook, ePUB)

Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most intimate and essential: sexuality. Modernity inaugurates a new political subject made legible as an individual through the nuclear family, sexual adventure and the pursuit of romantic love. By examining the regulation of sexual life at Britain's borders, in colonial India, and through the functioning of the welfare state, marriage laws, education, and counterterrorism, Balani reveals that sexuality has become fatally intertwined with the making of race.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839761034
• Artikelnr.: 67857959

Autorenporträt

Dr. Sita Balani is a lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the co-author of Empire's Endgame. She has published in Vice, Tribune, the White Review, Novara, Salvage, Ceasefire, Five Dials, Wasafiri, and Open Democracy. She has appeared on BBC3 and Novara Media, and is a regular speaker at events on anti-racism, feminism, education, sexuality, and colonial history.

Inhaltsangabe

I
1 Sexual Modernity
2 Sexual Science
3 Racial Hygiene
4 National Family
II
5 Divide and Assimilate
6 Identity Crisis
7 Dangerous Brown Women
8 Think of the Children
Coda: The Promise that Would Never Be Kept