Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 14:16:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chi Park <cpark-AT-ea.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: _History of Sexuality_ Vol. 1-3 & Racism


sounds interesting. have you checked out robyn wiegman's book, _american 
anatomies_? she deals with many of the issues you bring up. i'd welcome a 
discussion looking at the intersections between race and sex...how do you 
suggest we begin?--jane

On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, chloe sekouri wrote:

> So-- anybody want to talk about  what can be said of reprentations of "race"
> in sexually explicit materials (i.e. "pornography", "erotica", whatever you
> want to call it) in light of Foucault's insights in the introduction ("We
> Other Victorians") of  _The History of Sexuality, Vol I_? I'm thinking here
> not just of porn, but also  20th century eugenics tracts, the Scottsboro
> trial ( a trial in which several African-American men were accused of raping
> (1 or 2, I'm not sure) white women, and  the mainstream American film _The
> Bodyguard_. I realize that this is a *huge* question, but maybe that's a
> good thing. Someone want to narrow it down? Suggest related topics? Etc etc?
> What about a genreal discusssion of the absence of "race" (whatever that is)
> in the writings of Foucault and other French (read: former colonial power)
> theorists? Someone? Anyone? 
> 
> Yours in hope tinged with desperation,
> 
> chloe
> 
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>  as men can't              Men don't count.
> I can handle men. Never expected better
>  of any man    anyway.
>                                   But the women,
> shallow-cheeked young girls the world was made for
> safe little girls who think nothing of bravado
> who never got over by playing it tough"   Dorothy Allison
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