{"product_id":"the-color-of-desire-the-queer-politics-of-race-in-the-federal-republic-of-germany-after-1970-9781501773365","title":"The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany After 1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells the story of how, in the aftermath of gay liberation, race played a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of queer, German politics.\u003c\/b\u003e Focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher Ewing charts both the entrenchment of racisms within white, queer scenes and the formation of new, antiracist movements that contested overlapping marginalizations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from being discrete political trajectories, racist and antiracist politics were closely connected, as activists worked across groups to develop their visions for queer politics. Ewing describes not only how AIDS workers, gay tourists, white lesbians, queer immigrants, and Black feminists were connected in unexpected ways but also how they developed contradictory concerns that comprised the full landscape of queer politics. Out of these connections, which often exceeded the bounds of the Federal Republic, arose new forms of queer fascism as well as their multiple, antiracist contestations. Both unsettled the appeals to national belonging, or \"homonationalism,\" on which many white queer activists based their claims. Thus, the story of the making of homonationalism is also the story of its unmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e explains how the importance of racism to queer politics cannot--and should not--be understood without also attending to antiracism. Actors worked across different groups, making it difficult to chart separable political trajectories. At the same time, antiracist activists also used the fractures and openings in groups that were heavily invested in the logics of whiteness to formulate new, antiracist organizations and, albeit in constrained ways, shifted queer politics more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Ewing is Assistant Professor at Purdue University. His research focuses on the intersections of queer history and the history of race in modern Germany. He has previously published in \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSexualities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Bulletin of the German Historical Institute\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSexuality \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50691917119762,"sku":"9781501773365","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38d0ca48-3d79-4eef-b342-d59280495a53.jpg?v=1734112592","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-color-of-desire-the-queer-politics-of-race-in-the-federal-republic-of-germany-after-1970-9781501773365","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}