Race Ethnicity and Sexuality

<p>What's sex got to do with race? With ethnicity? With nationalism? What do race ethnicity and nationalism have to do with sex? <em>Race Ethnicity and Sexuality</em> addresses these questions exploring the intimate intersections and forbidden frontiers where ethnicity and sexuality meet face-to-face. Through numerous examples from the U.S. and beyond-and from the past and the present-the book illustrates the power of sex to shape ideas and feelings about race ethnicity and the nation. It shows how sexual images fears and desires help form racial ethnic and national stereotypes differences and conflicts.<br />In this unique work Joane Nagel demonstrates how ethnicity and sexuality join hands to fashion new hybrid identities communities and cultures; how the volatile mixture of race and sex can spark ethnic violence; and how ethnosexual encounters can simultaneously resist and reinforce racial ethnic and national boundaries. She skillfully blends styles of inquiry and interpretation from the social sciences and the humanities to craft a convincing and illuminating account using images poetry fieldwork Internet postings interviews literature ethnographies historical texts archival documents biographies census data journals and personal accounts. <em>Race Ethnicity and Sexuality</em> is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in race and ethnicity; sexuality; race/gender/class; gender studies; ethnic studies; multicultural and diversity studies; or globalization studies.</p>