Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire Poetry | American | African American & Black ; Poetry | LGBTQ+ ; Poetry | Women Authors and histories of racism

and histories of racism

Health & Wealth are our Spiritual rights

Straus and Giroux (June 15

the Goncourt

Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire Poetry | American | African American & Black ; Poetry | LGBTQ+ ; Poetry | Women Authors and histories of racismSexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social structures that define whiteness as desirable and normative while othering men of color. In queer erotic economies this othering may take the form of sexual rejection or