Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire AR Barrett brilliantly depicts life in

Barrett brilliantly depicts life in contemporary Nigeria and details the double-dealing and code-switching that are implicit in everyday business

and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed

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she finds out weathering the storm isn’t the problem

Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire AR Barrett brilliantly depicts life inSexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social structures that define whiteness as desirable and normative while othering men of color. In queer erotic economies this othering may take the form of sexual rejection or