The Gendered Society Reader

David Eng, David L. Eng

The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"-the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our "colorblind" age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark legal decision overturning Texas's antisodomy statute, Eng reveals how the ghosts of miscegenation haunt both Lawrence and the advent of queer liberalism.Eng develops the concept of "queer diasporas" as a critical response to queer liberalism. A methodology drawing attention to new forms of family and kinship, accounts of subjects and subjectivities, and relations of affect and desire, the concept differs from the traditional notions of diaspora, theories of the nation-state, and principles of neoliberal capitalism upon which queer liberalism thrives. Eng analyzes films, documentaries, ...

Zalfa Feghali (Editor)

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and

Nishant Upadhyay (Author)

Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity

Winner of a NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize Nishant Upadhyay unrave