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Containing (Un)American Bodies
Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 219
- Philosophy of Peace, Volume: 219
"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." â Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco
"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." â Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UK
"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." â Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UK
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 âDomestic Terrorismâ
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
Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo: Preface
Introduction
G. W. Bush Administration Narratives of Threat and Containment
Same-Sex Marriage as âDomestic Terrorismâ
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