ABSTRACT

Race/Sex is the first forum for combined discussion of racial theory and gender theory. In sixteen articles, avant-garde scholars of African American philosophy and liberatory criticism explore and explode the categories of race, sex and gender into new trajectories that include sexuality, black masculinity and mixed-race identity.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Aim, Questions, and Overview

part |30 pages

Analysis

chapter |12 pages

Metaphysical Racism

(Or: Biological Warfare by Other Means) 1

chapter |12 pages

Racism and Sexism

The Common Ground

part |22 pages

Comparison

chapter |8 pages

“But would that Still be me?”

Notes on Gender, “Race,” Ethnicity, As Sources of “Identity”

part |16 pages

Phenomenology

chapter |14 pages

Race, Sex, and Matrices of Desire in an Antiblack World

An Essay in Phenomenology and Social Role

chapter |12 pages

Body Badges

Race and Sex

part |10 pages

Performance

chapter |8 pages

Methexis vs. Mimesis

Poetics of Feminist and Womanist Drama

chapter |14 pages

Malcolm X

Masculinist Practice and Queer Theory