Sexual Racism and Social Justice
Reckoning with White Supremacy and Desire
Published on 17. May 2024
978-0-19-760551-6 (ISBN)
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In the late 1970s, American sociologist Charles Stember called sexual racism "the emotional barrier to an integrated society." Defining sexual racism as "the sexual rejection of the racial minority," Stember gave name to a social phenomenon epitomized in his time by interracial marriage. Today, our digital dating world has reignited interest in sexual racism through debates over the role of race in partner selection, while studies identify blatant and subtle examples of sexual racism in everyday life and the detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of individuals and our societies.
Bringing together a collection of research, personal reflection, and creative work, Sexual Racism and Social Justice provides a comprehensive, in-depth account of sexual racism from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. With an array of methods, disciplines, and positionalities, the volume argues that sexual racism is in the very foundations of our societies, determining the ideas, bodies, and systems positioned as desirable. Chapter authors illuminate new understandings of the relationship between sex and race, arguing that to undesire whiteness is to help undo sexual racism. Ultimately, the volume proposes tangible changes to theoretical, conceptual, and practical work to achieve two primary goals of social justice: eliminating racism in our societies and fostering truly liberated sexual plurality.
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Denton Callander | Pantea Farvid | Amir Baradaran
Sexual Racism and Social Justice
Reckoning with White Supremacy and Desire
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Denton Callander is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales. Callander is a social epidemiologist who studies sex, sexualities, and sexual health. His research in Australasia, North America, Europe, and Africa seeks to unravel the sociocultural dimensions of sexuality and their impacts on health and wellbeing.
Panteá Farvid is an Associate Professor of Applied Psychology in the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School. She is the founder and director of The SexTech Lab, an interdisciplinary psychology lab that works at the intersection of gender, race, sexuality, culture, technology, AI, ethics, social justice, and intimacy. Her teaching and research focus on the critical psychology of gender and sexuality, psychology for social change/justice, and technologically mediated life.
Amir Baradaran is the Founder and Director of the augmented reality start-up, ABXRStudio. He is an artist, activist, and technologist whose work focuses on social justice and equity. He is also the Founder of the international conference and platform, Another AI in Art: Decolonizing Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Art Making.
Thomas A. Vance is the Clinical and Research Director at ClearMinds LLC, and Adjunct Professor in the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School. He is a counseling psychologist, scholar, and researcher. His work encompasses interdisciplinary psychology, having authored numerous articles addressing the mental health needs of the Black and LGBTQ+ communities.
Content
Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sexual Racism?
Denton Callander, Panteá Farvid, Amir Baradaran, and Thomas A. Vance
Section I: Histories and Theories
1. A Queer History of Sexual Racism
Denton Callander, Tony Ayres, and Donovan Trott
2. A Look Back at the World's First Online Anti-Sexual Racism Campaign: Sexual Racism Sux
Andy Quan
3. Anti-Black Skin, White Sheets: Challenging Sexual Color-Blindness Through a Sexual Humility Framework
Xiqiao Chen, Jeremy Kelleher, Anthony Boiardo, Dashawn Ealey, and Daniel Gaztambide
Poetry Interlude: Jezebel
Synclaire Warren
Section II: Representations
4. "I Am Dark and Beautiful": Song of Songs, Audre Lorde, and the Politics of Desire
Siam Hatzaw
5. White Desirability and the Violent Radicalization of Andrew Cunanan
Marc Milton Ducusin
6. Undesiring Whiteness and Undoing the White Gaze in HIV Prevention Marketing
Ivan Bujan
7. Amitis Motevalli: Exorcising Orientalism
Anuradha Vikram
Poetry Interlude: Shea Butter and Honey
Illannah Deshazier
Section III: Lived Realities
8. "You Just Got To Own It": Maori Girls Un/Doing Settler Colonial Sexuality in Aotearoa
Fern Smith and Jade Le Grice
9. Predators and Perpetrators: Cultures of White Settler Violence in So-Called Australia
Madi Day and Bronwyn Carlson
10. Consuming Whiteness/Disciplining Desire
Gene Lim
11. Sexual Racism as White Privilege: The Relational and Psychic Negotiation of Desire, Power, and Sex
Russell K. Robinson
Poetry Interlude: The Butcher
Synclaire Warren
Section IV: Spotlighting the Structural
12. Curating Desire: The White Supremacist Grammar of Tagging on Pornhub
Chibundo Egwuatu, Zahra Stardust, Mireille Miller-Young, and Daisy Ducati
13. Undesiring Whiteness in the Sex Industry: The Racialized Stratification of Sex Work in Four Distinct Anglo-Legal Contexts
Panteá Farvid, Sarah Epstein, Leigh Lumpkin, Thyme Canton, and Michelle King
14. Sexual Racism and Asian American Egg Donation: Reflections on Experiential Ambivalence
Ellen Yom
15. Decentering Whiteness in South Africa: Using Empathic Dialogue to Engage With Race, Identity, Privilege, and Entitlement
Matthew Rich-Tolsma and Sizwe Mqalo
