Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Interactions, Forbidden Frontiers.(Book Review)

Publication: Journal of Popular Culture

Publication Date: 01-AUG-04

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Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Interactions, Forbidden Frontiers. Joane Nagel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

In this fine book, Joane Nagel examines the ways in which ethnicity, race, and sexuality intersect in the construction of individual and group identities and in the organization of social life. She adopts a social constructivist approach developed in studies of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Since the 1970s, anthropology and history have joined efforts to investigate variations across time and places of the ways in which human beings experience, represent, and organize sexuality. These recent studies of sexuality are not concerned with biological or physical differences per se; rather, they focus on assertions and...

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