CGS 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: An American Dilemma, Heteronormativity, Pentecostalism

• School: UCSD
• Department: Critical Gender Studies
• Course: CGS 105
• Professor: Roshanak Kheshti

Document Summary

Cgs 105 article notes nightmares of the heteronormative. " (cid:449)hite ra(cid:272)ial do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e "others" afri(cid:272)a(cid:374)-americans as "queer" subjects, as people who exist somewhere outside of proper heterosexual interaction" (420) Sexualities (421) rationalization: material and intellectual culture connected to capitalism. Interpellate: identify with institutional and ideological markers of liberal capitalism (422) during slavery, black heterosexual and homosexual practices were very similar. " i(cid:374) the u(cid:374)ited states, sla(cid:448)e e(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ipatio(cid:374) e(cid:374)a(cid:272)ted a de(cid:373)a(cid:374)d for se(cid:454)ual regulatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d a(cid:271)olitio(cid:374) of nonheteronormative practices" (422) Saying slaves were sexually depraved because they could be non-monogamous/fluid/etc: forcing them to be heteronormative through marriage. American dilemma and the american creed: evoking the. Nonheteronormative (424) wwii led to international liberal ideology, which challenged presumptions that blacks were inferior: myrdal"s american dilemma: cultural difference, not biological difference. " (cid:272)apital a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hite la(cid:271)or used se(cid:454)ualized ra(cid:272)ial di(cid:448)isio(cid:374)s for the produ(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e pro(cid:272)ess, usi(cid:374)g fears of bodily taboos and transgressions to preserve a segregated work force" (428)