Sita Balani, "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" (Verso, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Evolution of Racism in the 1990s and 2000s
Liberalizing attitudes towards gay people and increasing suspicion towards Muslim people were kind of connected as part of a larger conjunctural shift in the 1990s and 2000s. Next up in the book is a discussion of the development of racial categories under blareism, or I suppose third-way neoliberalism generally. This conjuncturist starts to see the embrace of, as you mentioned earlier, this delimited form of queer sexuality that accompanied policy changes like the repeal of section 28,. introduction of civil partnerships act while at the same time the government embarked on these wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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