Hong, Grace Kyungwon and Roderick A. Ferguson, eds. Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), $19.06, 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4985-3 (paper).

Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson illustrate the crucial implications of critical moves by marking the formation of queer of color critique as part of the long critical genealogy of women of color feminism rather than narrating these two formations as subsets or extensions of mainstream white feminist and queer studies. Organized by shared analytics and problematics of knowledge production about minoritized subjects rather than similar content or topics, the essays offer rigorous analyses of complex ways that categories of difference-particularly race, gender, and sexuality-intersect in shaping the relationships among disparate minoritized subjects that have been obscured by established or "normative" knowledge forms. While both projects foreground the critical task of unsettling and unpacking established knowledge systems that render minoritized subjects devalued and invisible, they differ in their stance on whether or not creating intelligibility of minoritized subjects ought to be the ultimate theoretical or political goal.