Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy
Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to purge society of so-called biological contaminants, people who were poor,...
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Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to purge society of so-called biological contaminants, people who were poor, disabled, black, or queer. Building on a legacy of savage hate crimes — such as the killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd — McWhorter shows that racism, sexual oppression, and discrimination against the disabled, the feeble, and the poor are all aspects of the same societal distemper, and that when the civil rights of one group are challenged, so are the rights of all.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Two Great Dangers 11 Racism, Race, Race War: In Search of Conceptual Clarity 172 A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 1: The White Man Cometh 633 A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 2: From Black Lepers to Idiot Children 974 Scientific Racism and the Threat of Sexual Predation 1415 Managing Evolution: Race Betterment, Race Purification, and the American Eugenics Movement 1966 Nordics Celebrate the Family 2457 (Counter) Remembering Racism: An Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges 294Notes 333Works Cited 401Index 421
\ Choice"... an important book on the study of race and sexuality studies.... By using definition, theory, and discussion of 'normality' and 'abnormality' as put forth by Foucault, McWhorter is able to highlight issues of sexual discrimination within the Anglo-American world. This text offers many insights into the topic of homophobia and discrimination in the US.... Highly recommended." —Choice, September 2009\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Speculative Philosophy"[This book] is a powerful fact-based philosophical epic of oppression in Anglo-America along its two central axes—racism and sexuality." —Cynthia Willett, Emory University, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 23.4 2009\ — Cynthia Willett, Emory University\ \ \ \ Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy"McWhorter's expanded conception of racism is a path-breaking and far-reaching contribution to critical race theory, disability theory, queer theory, and Foucault scholarship that complicates some of the most accepted understandings of these fields and shows how these understandings have at different times, in unexpected ways, enhanced relations of subjection, domination, and control." —Hypatia\ \
