IS SEXUAL DESIRE RACED?: THE SOCIAL MEANING OF INTERRACIAL PROSTITUTION

IS SEXUAL DESIRE RACED?: THE SOCIAL MEANING OF INTERRACIAL PROSTITUTION Article

Shrage, L. (1992). IS SEXUAL DESIRE RACED?: THE SOCIAL MEANING OF INTERRACIAL PROSTITUTION . 23(1), 42-51. 10.1111/j.1467-9833.1992.tb00483.x

I shall forgive the white South much in its final judgment day: I shall forgive its slavery, for slavery is a world‐old habit; I shall forgive its fighting for a well‐lost cause, and for remembering that struggle with tender tears; I shall forgive its so‐called “pride of race,” the passion of its hot blood, and even its dear, old, laughable strutting and posing; but one thing I shall never forgive, neither in this world nor the world to come: its wanton and continued and persistent insulting of the black womanhood which it sought and seeks to prostitute to its lust. (W.E.B. DuBois) The assumption that one can privilege gender, in advance, as a category, setting the terms of inclusion without fully considering those for whom gender alone fails to capture the multiplicity of experience, is itself an Orientalist move. (Dorinne Kondo) Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved