The Intersectional Other

Alex Rivera

doi:10.5771/9781793635051

Summary

In The Intersectional Other, Alex Rivera deconstructs the history of power in the United States, critiquing the white colonialism and heteronormativity evident in psychological and medical literature and rejecting the deficiencies projected onto queer Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color (BIPOC). Rivera compels her readers to envision a world where Intersectional Others hold not just power, but the capacity to evoke societal transformations through creativity, self-love, and revolution. The Intersectional Other boldly reimagines the margins, creating a radical space for readers to de-vilify Otherness and conjure a better future.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3504-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3505-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 248
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Power for the Intersectional Other No access
2. 1. Language as Resistance No access
  2. Queering Language No access
3. Vocabulary No access
4. Autoethnography and Author Positionalities No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. The “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” Exercise No access
  2. Ingroup Favoritism and Outgroup Derogation No access
  3. Threat Theory and Its Contribution to Othering No access
2. The Construction and Politicization of Otherness No access
3. 1. The Creation of “Whiteness” in the United States No access
  2. Critical Race Theory and the Expansion of Whiteness Studies No access
  3. 1. White Supremacy and Police Brutality No access
4. 1. Sexual Fluidity as a Challenge to Sexual Essentialism No access
  2. The Weaponization of Sexual Essentialism and Constructionism No access
5. 1. The Birth of Cultural Relativism No access
1. A Comment on Erasure and Historical Memory No access
2. 1. The Naturalization Act No access
  2. The Civilization Fund Act No access
  3. The Chinese Exclusion Act and Panic of 1873 No access
  4. Sodomy Law and Sexuality No access
3. The FBI and the “Lavender Scare” No access
4. Homonationalism and the “Good White Gay” No access
5. 1. Mattachine Society and the Shadow of Assimilationism No access
  2. The Daughters of Bilitis and “The Ladder” No access
6. Exclusionary Practices in Gay Bars No access
7. Rural Oppression and Resistance No access
8. 1. “The Loop” No access
  2. The Tenderloin No access
  3. Harlem and Queer Performativity No access
9. Intersectional Liberatory Consciousness No access
10. 1. Jackie Bross and Gender Policing No access
  2. A Queer Japanese Internment Story No access
1. Minority Stress Theory No access
2. 1. Racism and Heterosexism No access
  2. Income, Segregation, and Economic Security No access
  3. Housing and Gentrification No access
  4. Employment Discrimination No access
3. 1. Intersectional Others and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic No access
  2. Mental Health, Psychiatric Distress, and Substance Use No access
4. 1. Systemic Imbalances Inherent in the Deficit Model No access
1. The Redeemer Nation No access
2. The Phases of Colonization and Decolonization No access
3. 1. A Brief History No access
  2. 1. Queer Indigineity and Biopower No access
  3. Black Subjugation and White Profiteering No access
  4. The Reaping of BIPOC Land, Lives, and Futurities No access
  5. Racialized Labor and Modern-Day Capitalism No access
4. 1. The Real-World Consequences of Orientalism No access
  2. 1. Asian Queer Criminalizations and “Oriental Depravity” No access
    2. The Yellow Peril and Early Depictions of Asian Queers No access
  3. 1. Orientalized Desire and “M. Butterfly” No access
  4. Orientalism and the “Terrorist” No access
5. The Psychological Legacy of Colonialism No access
6. 1. Recognizing the Coloniality of Power, Knowledge, and Being No access
  2. 1. Assimilation and Its Bearing on Historical Memory No access
  3. Empowering the Disempowered No access
7. 1. Resurgence and Regeneration, Not Recognition and Reconciliation No access
1. 1. Infra-Humanization No access
2. 1. 1. CBT and the Ethics of Neutrality No access
  2. Our Research Is Too “WEIRD” No access
3. The Social Cycle of Dehumanization No access
4. 1. 1. Anger and Activism No access
  2. 1. Nathan and Isabel: A Brief Illustration No access
    2. “Oppression Doesn’t Exist” No access
  3. 1. Operation Varsity Blues and Affirmative Action No access
    2. Keeping Up with the Kardashians No access
    3. We Must See Our Otherness for What It Is No access
5. 1. 1. Becoming the Oppressor No access
    2. Freire’s “Self-Depreciation” No access
    3. The Effect of Self-Depreciation on Queer Intimacies No access
    4. The Pulse Nightclub Massacre No access
  2. 1. The Ancestral Trauma Embedded in Respectability Language No access
  3. 1. Imposter Syndrome No access
1. 1. The Pitfalls of Diversity Training No access
2. 1. Intersectionality before Crenshaw No access
  2. Intersectionality Versus Integrated Relationality No access
  3. An Empathic Understanding of the Othered No access
3. 1. 1. Villainous Sissies and Treacherous Dykes No access
  2. 1. #OscarsSoWhite No access
4. 1. Our Internal Oppressors No access
  2. Critical Consciousness Theory No access
  3. 1. The Harm of White Progressive Guilt and Performative Activism No access
    2. The Safety Pin, the Pussy Hat, and the Black Box No access
1. Collecting the Data No access
2. Introducing the Participants No access
3. The Interview No access
1. Our Own Example No access
2. 1. The Black Panthers and the “Threat” of Black Liberation No access
3. Rethinking and Redefining Power No access
4. 1. A Shift in Social Justice Pedagogy No access
  2. Galvanizing Intersectional Others No access
  3. 1. Compton’s Cafeteria No access
    2. “Stonewall Was a Riot!” No access
5. 1. Self-Love As Resistance No access
  2. 1. “Who Says We Don’t Talk about Sex?” No access
  3. Rest as Cultural Preservation No access
  4. 1. The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies No access
    2. The Power of Kapwa for Psychological Healing No access
6. 1. 1. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle No access
  2. 1. The QBIPOC Insiders No access
    2. A New Wave of QBIPOC Political Power No access
7. 1. 1. The National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference No access
  2. Barriers to Intercommunity Solidarity No access
  3. Contemporary Solidarity Efforts No access
8. 1. 1. The “New Negro” Versus the “Perfumed Orchid” No access
    2. Blues and Queer Sexualities No access
  2. Creative Divergence from (White) Mainstream Feminism No access
  3. 1. Aloha Is a Performance No access
    2. Self-Portrait on the Border No access
    3. Disidentificatory Performances No access
1. Queerness and Marginality as Radical Reimagining No access
Bibliography No access Pages 209 - 244
Index No access Pages 245 - 246
About the Author No access Pages 247 - 248