ABSTRACT
This article is a stylized blend of personal history and polemical essay which investigates the relationship between race and sexuality. What starts out as a history of the narrator’s experience of being a “banana”—yellow (Chinese) on the outside and white (Caucasian) on the inside—becomes a complex exploration of the various ways in which male homosexual desire is constructed and how race is both included and excluded from western constructions of homosexuality. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678. E-mail address: getinfoChaworthpressinc.com]
