Social Text 84-85: What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?

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What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now? Special Issue Editors David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam, José Esteban Muñoz Introduction: What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now? David L. Eng with Judith Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz 1 Punk’d Theory

Tavia Nyong’o 19

The Joy of the Castrated Boy

Joon Oluchi Lee 35

Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography

Elizabeth Freeman 57

Tarrying with the Normative: Queer Theory and Black History Amy Villarejo 69 Of Our Normative Strivings: African American Studies and the Histories of Sexuality Roderick A. Ferguson 85 Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family: Reviewing the Case for Homosexual Asylum in the Context of Family Rights Chandan Reddy 101 Queer Times, Queer Assemblages

Jasbir K. Puar 121

Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City Martin F. Manalansan IV 141 Bollywood Spectacles: Queer Diasporic Critique in the Aftermath of 9/11 Gayatri Gopinath 157 You Can Have My Brown Body and Eat It, Too!

Hiram Perez 171

JJ Chinois’s Oriental Express, or, How a Suburban Heartthrob Seduced Red America Karen Tongson 193

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Shame and White Gay Masculinity

Judith Halberstam 219

Gay Rights versus Queer Theory: What Is Left of Sodomy after Lawrence v. Texas? Teemu Ruskola 235 Uncivil Wrongs: Race, Religion, Hate, and Incest in Queer Politics Michael Cobb 251 Policing Privacy, Migrants, and the Limits of Freedom Nayan Shah 275 Sex + Freedom = Regulation: Why?


Janet R. Jakobsen 285

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Contributors

Michael Cobb is an assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto. His essays have appeared, or soon will appear, in Callaloo, GLQ, University of Toronto Quarterly, Criticism, and boundary 2. His book God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence is forthcoming from New York University Press. David L. Eng is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2001). In addition, he is coeditor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (University of California Press, 2003) and coeditor with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple University Press, 1998), which was the winner of a 1998 Lambda Literary Award and the 1998 Cultural Studies Book Award of the Association for Asian American Studies. He is completing a book titled “Queer Diasporas/Psychic Diasporas,” which explores the impact of Asian transnational and queer social movements on family and kinship in the late twentieth century. Roderick A. Ferguson is an associate professor of race and critical theory in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). Elizabeth Freeman is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (Duke University Press, 2002) and is working on a second book tentatively titled “Time Binds: Essays in Queer Temporality.” She has also published or copublished articles in nineteenth-century American literature and queer studies in journals including American Literary History, American Literature, boundary 2, New Literary History, Radical Teacher, and Women and Performance. Gayatri Gopinath is an associate professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005). Her work on diasporic sexualities has appeared in journals such as GLQ, positions, Diaspora, Amerasia, and Gender and History.


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Judith Halberstam is a professor of English and director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke University Press, 1995) and Female Masculinity (Duke University Press, 1998) and has a new book of essays titled In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York University Press, 2005). Halberstam is working on a book titled “Dude, Where’s My Theory? The Politics of Knowledge in an Age of Stupidity.” Janet R. Jakobsen is director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference (Indiana University Press, 1998), coauthor (with Ann Pellegrini) of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (New York University Press, 2003), and coeditor (with Elizabeth A. Castelli) of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004). Joon Oluchi Lee is assistant professor of gender studies and English at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is working on a book about gay male effeminacy and black femininity titled “rainbowbaby-woman: poethics of racial-sexual cross-identification.” Martin F. Manalansan IV is an associate professor of anthropology and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003). In addition to essays in journals and anthologies, he has edited two volumes of essays: Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple University Press, 2001) and (with Arnaldo Cruz-Malave) Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002).


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José Esteban Muñoz is an associate professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is the author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). He is also the coeditor (with Celeste Delgado) of Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (Duke University Press, 1997) and (with Jennifer Doyle and Jonathan Flatley) of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Duke University Press, 1996). Tavia Nyong’o is an assistant professor of performance studies at New York University. He has written on racial kitsch in cinema and collecting, on the cyber-performance artist Pamela Z, and on the performance of blackness in U.S. politics. His work has appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism, 3x3, and Women and Performance. Hiram Perez is an assistant professor of English at Montclair State University, where he also teaches courses in women’s studies and African American studies. He is completing a manuscript that explores the relationship between shame and racial embodiment. Jasbir K. Puar is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University. She works on queer globalizations, South Asian diasporas, gay and lesbian tourism, and sexual scripts of terrorism. Her articles have appeared in GLQ, Signs, Society and Space, Feminist Review, Radical History Review, Antipode, and Gender, Place and Culture. Chandan Reddy is an assistant professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is completing a manuscript on the rise of postemancipation black publics in the age of U.S. wars in Asia, 1898– 1952. The essay published here is part of a second project on queer of color cultural formations and U.S. neoliberalism. Teemu Ruskola is a professor of law at American University. His writings on the cultural study of law have appeared, among other places, in Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and Yale Law Journal.


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Nayan Shah is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001). Karen Tongson is an assistant professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California. She has published various articles on queer theory and aesthetics from the nineteenth century to the present and is working on two book projects: one on Victorian aesthetics and homonormativity, and another on contemporary queer of color suburban subcultures. Amy Villarejo teaches film and directs the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell University, where she is an associate professor. Her most recent book is Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Duke University Press, 2003). Mie Yim was born in South Korea in 1963 and currently lives and works in New York City. Her work has been displayed in numerous international solo and group exhibitions. Most recently, she had solo exhibitions at Galleria In Arco in Turin, Italy, in 2004 and at Metaphor Contemporary Art in New York City in 2003. She is represented by the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York City.


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