Containing (Un)American Bodies

Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-3024-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 219, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy of Peace

“The authors argue that queer, black, brown, and foreign bodies, and the so-called threats they represent, such as immigration reform and same-sex marriage, have been effectively linked with terrorism. These awful conflations… are enduring and help to explain the contradictions of contemporary U.S. politics. We are far from a post post-9/11 world.”
Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco,
United States

“If you want to understand how a new biopolitics of citizenship is containing bodies of the nation by re-inscribing sex and race into it and how this new biopolitics is being resisted you must read this book.”
Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, United Kingdom

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

William C. Gay: Editorial Foreword
Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo: Preface
Introduction
G. W. Bush Administration Narratives of Threat and Containment
Same-Sex Marriage as “Domestic Terrorism”
Bodies that Resisted Containment
The Merger of Immigration, Citizenship, and Same-Sex Marriage
Constructions of Threat and the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign
Threatening Bodies in the Age of Obama
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Authors
Index