In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence

By Lina-Maria Murillo December 8, 2020 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Reproductive control and violence have been a hallmark of immigration policy in the United States for over a century.

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men

By Thomas Foster October 27, 2020 Author Interviews, Early America, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence 0 comments

Rethinking Rufus argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.

Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

By Amber Musser August 8, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Sensual Excess explores different iterations of racialized sexuality through the work of artists of color.

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci May 2, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine

By Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez September 18, 2018 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.

A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

By Alexie Glover June 29, 2017 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 1 comment

Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles June 15, 2017 LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 3 comments

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.