Racism and Gay Men of Color

Sulaimon Giwa

doi:10.5771/9781498582520

Summary

Sulaimon Giwa’s aptly named Racism and Gay Men of Color arrives at a time when many of the sociocultural issues it raises have come to national attention. Yet gay men of color in Canadian GLBT communities are still subject to racism and excluded, both online and offline. If a gay man of color is not the “right” color, he is often the recipient of stereotypical racial epithets and denied sexual approbation within an erotic world where sexual desires are structured along the lines of race, ethnicity, age, disability, and class. Giwa warns against the denial that underlies much of this monolithic racism and highlights the strategies used by gay men of color to counter racism in their communities and to lead strong, effective lives. This important book will inspire advocates and activists, students and scholars, and will become indispensable in university and college courses on sexuality and race studies.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8251-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8252-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 180
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. 1. Notes No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. 1. Impact of Racism on the Health of Racial and Ethnic Minorities No access
  2. 1. Identity No access
    2. Mental Health No access
    3. Physical Health No access
2. Making Connections: An Integrated Conceptual Model Linking Racism With Coping Actions and Health Outcomes for Gay Men of Color No access
3. Minority Stress: Accounting for Stress-Related Experiences of Racism No access
4. Internalized Homophobia and Racism No access
5. Perceived Stigma No access
6. Discrimination and Violence No access
7. 1. Appraisal and Emotion No access
  2. Resilience No access
  3. Coping and Social Support No access
8. The Knife Edge of Racism and Resilience No access
9. Notes No access
1. So, What Does GLBT Racism Look Like Anyway? No access
2. 1. Conscious and Unconscious Racism No access
  2. Invisibility or Exclusion from Institutional Venues and Media Cultural Productions No access
3. Racial Stereotypes and Sexual Objectification of Gay Men of Color No access
4. The New, Online Sexual Racism No access
5. Looking Below the Surface of Racism No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. General and Institutional Contexts of Racism No access
  2. Interpersonal and Intergroup Situational Contexts of Racism No access
  3. Physiological and Psychosocial Impact of Racism on Sense of Community Connectedness No access
  4. Racism, Self Identification, and Connection to Gay Men’s Communities No access
2. Whole Selves in Divided Communities No access
1. Cultural Factors, White Fear, and the Denial of Racism No access
2. Racial Numeric Underrepresentation and the Silence of Racism No access
3. Sexuality, Masculinity, Beauty, and Competition No access
4. Shining a Light on the Experience of Racism in Multicultural Canada No access
5. Note No access
1. 1. Self-Acceptance and Understanding of Self and Others No access
  2. Humor and Physical Activity No access
  3. Spirituality No access
2. 1. Self-Criticism, Social Withdrawal, and Suppression of Feelings No access
  2. Substance Use No access
3. 1. Information Seeking No access
  2. Confronting the Perpetrator and Seeking Retribution No access
  3. Vigilance No access
  4. Travel Outside of the Local Area and Dating Only Gay Men of Color No access
  5. Advocating and Volunteering No access
4. 1. Problem and Cognitive Avoidance No access
5. Coping: Resilient Despite the Burden of Racism No access
6. Notes No access
1. Effective Coping Strategies No access
2. Ineffective Coping Strategies No access
3. Influences on Coping Strategies No access
4. Building and Strengthening Formal and Informal Supports No access
5. What Coping Reveals No access
6. Note No access
1. So, What to Do? No access
2. What Racism Teaches No access
3. Notes No access
1. Significance of Research Study and Relevance to Human Services No access
2. Suggestions for Research and Future Directions No access
3. 1. Health Outcomes No access
  2. Improve the Competence of Health Care Professionals No access
  3. Expand Social Services’ Scope of Practice No access
  4. Institute an Organization Devoted to GLBT People of Color No access
4. Notes No access
References No access Pages 145 - 170
Index No access Pages 171 - 178
About the Author No access Pages 179 - 180