The life and death of latisha king

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LATISHA KING THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LATISHA KING A C ritic a l Phenom e n ol o g y of Tr a n sph ob ia G ay l e Sa l a mon NEW YORK UNIVERSIT Y PRESS New York NEW YOR K UN IVERSIT Y PRESS New York www.nyupress.org © 2018 by New York University All rights reserved References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Salamon, Gayle, author Title: The life and death of Latisha King : a critical phenomenology of transphobia / Gayle Salamon Description: New York : New York University Press, [2018] | Series: Sexual cultures | Includes bibliographical references and index Identifiers: LCCN 2017034134| ISBN 9781479849215 (cl : alk paper) | ISBN 9781479892525 (pb : alk paper) Subjects: LCSH: King, Larry, 1993–2008 | Transgender people— United States—Case studies | Murder—United States—Case studies | Gender identity—United States | Sexual orientation—United States | Transphobia—United States | Homophobia—United States Classification: LCC HQ77.8.K56 S25 2018 | DDC 306.76/8—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034134 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books Manufactured in the United States of America 10 Also available as an ebook For Latisha Except perhaps in the case of some wretched souls who think only of winning or of being right, all action and all love are haunted by the hope for an account which will transform them into their truth—the coming of the day it will finally be known just what the situation was —Merleau-Ponty, “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence” INDEX Abiam M., 7–8 adoption, 9, 141 aggression: racialized gender/ sexuality and, 5–6, 9–10, 13, 19–20, 30–31, 36, 38, 41, 53–55, 87–96, 100, 116, 143, 153, 158– 61, 168, 178n26 Ahmed, Sara, 18 Aliyah, 20, 166 ambiguity, 15, 66, 80–81, 97, 106, 123–24, 144, 164, 179n5 anonymity, 13–14, 84, 101, 103–34 antiracist hegemony, 93–94 Anton G., Araujo, Gwen, 20–21 See also Assembly Bill 1160 (CA) Assembly Bill 1160 (CA), 4–5, 21 attention, 9, 22, 29, 53–54, 64, 87, 92, 136; “negative attentionseeking behavior,” 55–57, 74–75, 118–20, 130–34; phenomenology and, 15, 42, 48, 65, 133–34 Averi, 21 being (philosophical), 67, 102, 104, 106, 122–25, 129, 137, 141, 144–45, 150; human being, 113–20 being-in-the-world, 14 being-with-others, 134 Benjamin, Jessica, 126 Best, Wallace, 20 Bettcher, Talia, Black, Rosalie, 151 blackness: gender and, 22, 40, 88; violence and, 13, 19–20, 64, 88–89, 91, 94 bodily orientation, 11, 18, 45, 48, 50, 60; disorientation, 155–56 See also comportment body schema, 44 Boldrin, Dawn, 21, 25, 32–35, 87, 138–42 Bond, Justin Vivian, 25 “boys will be boys,” 37–38 Bramson, Robyn, 21, 54–55, 75, 79, 86, 117–18, 130–31, 135, 139–41 break (phenomenological), 42–43, 63–66, 91–92, 109–12 “baby” (address): Emmett Till Brown, Shirley, 73–74, 84, 157–59 murder and, 64; Latisha King bullying, 3, 11–12, 28–31, 36–37, 63, murder and, 7, 58, 60, 65 116, 118–19, 129, 132, 143, 152–53, bathroom bills, 162–69 157, 168–69 Beauvoir, Simone de, 80, 106, 179n5 Butler, Judith, 63, 83, 93–94 191 192 INDEX Cairns, Dorion, 105 Campbell, Charles, 135, 142 charade, 13, 81–82 cisgender people, 21, 164, 168–69 class, 9, 27, 32, 98 clothing, 11, 26–30, 38, 52, 54, 64, 85, 91, 102, 115, 131–32, 153, 155, 158; caps, 48–51, 53, 81; dress, 9, 135–42, 146–47; high-heeled boots, 8–9, 25, 33–34, 59, 66– 68, 71–83, 87, 116, 130, 135–39, 146–47, 152, 154 See also crossdressing; style common sense, 14, 103, 107–13, 121, 131–32, 134, 168 comportment, 11, 25–61, 75, 85, 150 See also bodily orientation Constable, Marianne, 178n23 Corbett, Ken, 9, 37, 116; A Murder over a Girl, 10 Cox, Laverne, 166–67 cross-dressing, 38; cross accessorizing, 33, 116–17, 130–31 Crowley, Susan, 117–20, 130–33 Cunningham, Marta: Valentine Road, 3, 20, 151, 157–58 Currah, Paisley, 168 embodiment, 5, 13, 16, 19, 43–44, 55, 60–61, 64, 80, 82, 92, 94–95, 121, 134, 145, 148, 150; ambiguity and, 106; anonymity and, 121–26, 128; gendered, 11–12, 14, 26–28, 32–34, 41, 48–51, 54–57, 66, 71–72, 85–86, 88–91, 103, 115, 135–39, 142, 165–66; gesture and, 69–72, 81–86; habit-body, 32; racial, 20, 88– 91; sexual, 48–51, 67, 97, 103, 122; uprightness and, 41–46 See also bodily orientation; body schema; gender; gesture; intercorporeality; movement; race; sedimentation; sexuality Embree, Lester, 148 enmeshment, 5, 16, 18, 42, 92, 119, 126, 133 See also horizon E.O Green Junior High School, 1, 8–9, 25, 28–29, 53, 66, 72, 79, 151, 153, 155, 166 erotic structuralism (Bettcher), ethics, 6, 18; of ambiguity, 106; phenomenological, 147–50, 161 ethos, 149–50; of unknowing, 159 experience, 23, 66, 77, 93, 101, 149; Descartes, René, 67, 113, 125 phenomenology and, 5, 16–19, deVos, Betsy, 181n2; Dear Colleague 43–47, 80, 105–6, 109, 111, 126– letter about bathrooms, 162 28, 143, 145, 149–50; racialized disclosure, 12, 27–28, 32, 67, 112, 135 gender and, 19–20, 87, 146, 155 Drummond, John, 148 expression, 10–13, 37, 42, 48–49, 51, 67, 69–70, 81–83, 86, 89, Eckman, Jill, 70–71, 84 102, 115, 139, 141, 176n31; genEdelman, Lee, 98 der expression, 4–5, 15, 27–30, effeminacy, 52–53, 118 See also 32, 34, 41, 66, 71, 116, 135, 152– femininity 55, 158, 164, 169 193 INDEX Fanon, Frantz, 17, 88 felt sense, 44, 125, 146 femininity, 24, 28, 41, 52–53, 63; perceptions of Latisha and, 5, 26–27, 31, 33–35, 71–72, 77, 83, 86, 116, 130–31, 136, 137, 139; racialized, 88, 91 See also effeminacy feminism, 126; feminist phenomenology, 14 flamboyance, 54 flesh, 67, 104, 122 foster care, 9, 141–42 Fox, Maeve, 1–2, 6–8, 21, 33, 59, 70–71, 76–77, 84–85, 116, 130, 135 France, 15 Freud, Sigmund, 13, 34, 95–96, 100–101, 143 fundament, humanly-wrought, 123 futurity, 47; gender and, 38, 91; queerness and, 98–99, 101; race and, 23, 91 gay and lesbian studies, 96–97 gay identity, 90, 97–102; gender identity conflated with, 3–5, 7–8, 19–23, 26–29, 39–40, 50– 59, 86–87, 151–52, 166 See also homosexuality; queerness; sexual orientation “gay panic” defense, 4–5, 21 See also “trigger incident” gaze, 56–57, 61, 70; in courtroom, 11, 14 gender, 17, 119, 140, 165–66; aggression read through, 5–6, 9–10, 13, 19–20, 30–31, 36, 38, 41, 53–55, 89–96, 100, 116, 143, 153, 158–61, 168, 178n26; anonymity and, 126–30; futurity and, 38, 91; gender expression, 4–5, 15, 27–30, 32, 34, 41, 66, 71, 116, 135, 152–55, 158, 164, 169; gender identity, 30, 162, 164, 168; as gesture, 14, 32–35, 49, 52, 67–80, 84–87, 135–36, 142, 152; meaning and, 12, 32, 41, 48–49, 52, 80–87, 135–39; movement and, 12, 29–36, 32, 41, 50–51, 55, 63–102, 133, 136– 37, 164; normativity and, 5, 11, 23, 27, 30–31, 56, 58, 63, 66, 87, 102, 117, 129, 132–33, 145, 156, 168, 181n16; as object, 14, 124, 136–37, 143, 147, 152; perception and, 19, 28, 33; as performance, 11, 41, 56, 115–16, 146; as projectile, 34, 87; queerness and, 7, 10, 12–13, 27–28, 33, 36, 39, 52–53, 58, 83, 87, 152; racialized, 19–23, 37–40, 88, 91, 114; sexuality and, 3–8, 10–13, 24, 26–31, 39, 48–54, 56–59, 69–71, 83, 87, 103, 126, 151–54, 161, 168; shock of, 68–80, 137; sound and, 11, 30, 66–80, 82, 87–88; style and, 34, 51, 71–72, 75, 85–87, 128–29, 137, 142; weaponized, 15 See also “boys will be boys”; femininity; feminism; “girls will be girls”; masculinity gender-nonconforming people, 5, 161 gender panic, 5, 12, 63, 70 genocide, 162 194 INDEX gentrification, Germany, 15 gesture, 12–13, 48, 81–83; gender as, 14, 32–35, 33, 49, 52, 67–80, 84–87, 135–36, 142, 152; race and, 88–89 “girls will be girls,” 38, 140 givenness, 15, 67–68, 83, 124 Goldstein, Debi, 153–56 Gooding-Williams, Robert, 94 Greer, Rosie, 118–19 Grimm, Gavin, 164 Guenther, Lisa, 17 Gyllenhammer, Paul, 148 habit, 16, 64, 66, 68, 111, 121, 127, 149, 161 habit-body, 32 Hardball with Chris Matthews, 166 Haritaworn, Jin, 20 Harney, Stefano, 178n26 hate crime law, 7, 9, 19, 38, 40, 115 HBO, Heidegger, Martin, 106–7, 112 Heinamaa, Sara, 127–29 Hermberg, Kevin, 148 heterosexuality, 18, 31, 34, 49, 51, 53 Hoagland, Donald, 1–2, 6–7, 31, 58–59 homicide, 113 See also manslaughter; murder homophobia, 3, 10–11, 15, 19, 24, 29, 37, 39–40, 89–90, 151, 161 See also “gay panic” defense homosexuality, 8, 24, 49, 51–54, 56–58 See also gay identity; queerness; sexual orientation horizon, 80, 92–95, 99, 101, 106, 145, 165; queer phenomenology and, 18–19 See also enmeshment House Bill (NC), 163–64 human (category), 14–15, 69, 95, 150; ambiguity and, 80, 106; anonymity and, 122–24; gait and, 42, 57; murder and, 113– 14; posture and, 45–46, 176n23 Hunter, Tyra, 20 Husserl, Edmund, 16, 106, 111–12, 127–28, 148; on phenomenology, 14–15, 41, 105, 107, 110; on retroactive crossing out, 156 inclination, 50–51, 157 intention (legal), 3, 76 intention (phenomenological), 48, 104, 126 intercorporeality, 125 intersubjectivity, 16–17, 125–26, 148 “It Gets Better” campaign, 98–99, 101–2 Jackie, John Muir High School, 91 Johnson, Galen, 82 Jones, Mr., 91 Keith L., 58 Kiesling, Mara, 166 King, Gregory, 141–42 King, Kendra, 140 King, Rodney, 13, 89–94 195 INDEX language, 7, 37–38, 44–45, 58–68, 71, 102, 133, 136, 144, 163–64, 176n31, 178n23; gesture as, 52, 70; limits of, 4, 11–13, 54–55, 69–70, 86–87, 159; opacity of, 81–83 See also “baby” (address) Lawlor, Leonard, 108 leathermen, 52–53 Levinas, Emmanuel, 16–17 Life magazine: “Homosexuality in America,” 49–53, 56–58 lifeworld, 15, 92, 125 “like a girl,” 8, 11–12, 30, 41 Los Angeles, CA, 89, 94 Lynch, Loretta, 162, 169 lynching, 64 Mead, George Herbert, 80 meaning, 64–65, 68–70, 92, 104, 106, 110, 128; gender and, 12, 32, 41, 48–49, 52, 80–87, 135–39; gesture and, 80–87; phenomenology and, 15–16, 44–45 Menninger, Karl, 101 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 63, 139, 143–46; on ambiguity, 80, 106; on anonymity, 13, 104, 121–28, 133; on gender, 12, 14, 67–68, 72; on gesture, 81–83, 85; on the horizon, 92; on intersubjectivity, 16–17; on perception, 66; on phenomenological method, 107, 110 methodology, of book, 10–19 See also phenomenology Maine, 63, 83 mimesis, 12–13, 82, 141 makeup, 9, 29, 33–34, 59, 71, 84, Mitsubjectivität, 16 See also inter130, 135, 137, 143, 146 subjectivity manslaughter, 70, 151 Mock, Janet, 166–67 Marina, 151 Morrison, Toni, 19 Marriott, David, 23 Moten, Fred, 64, 178n26 Martin, Trayvon, 87–89 motricity, 12 Marx, Werner, 149–50 movement, 16, 106, 111, 123, 144– masculinity, 26, 33–34, 63, 71, 130, 45; gender and, 12, 29–36, 41, 132, 52–53 50–51, 55, 63–102, 133, 136–37, McInerney, Brandon, 15, 37, 90, 119, 164; racially gendered, 12, 41, 134, 140, 142; gender and, 30, 55, 63–102, 133, 136–37, 164; 58–61, 71, 115, 147, 152–53, 159; sexuality and, 46, 48, 50, 53; at murder of Latisha King, 1, 3, trial, 11–12, 60–61; uprighted6–7, 10, 24–25, 30, 61, 70, 100, ness, 42, 45 See also motricity; 103, 113–14, 153; trial of, 5, 7, 12, the turn; walking 21, 30, 36, 38–40, 68–70, 113–14, MSNBC 150–52; violence supported Muñoz, José Esteban, 98–99 by teachers, 156–60; white murder, 3, 7, 10, 20–21, 38, 83, 100, supremacist views, 19, 39–40 103, 161; 196 INDEX Murder (continued) perception, 60, 78, 84; gender malice aforethought, 70, 113– and, 19, 28, 33; phenomenol14; trials and, 4, 9, 11, 13–14, 25, ogy and, 15–16, 18, 66–67, 80, 30–31, 39–40, 60, 68–70, 98, 82, 106–7, 111, 122–29, 144–45; 113–14, 150–51 See also “gay race and, 19, 40; sexuality and, panic” defense; hate crime 11, 30, 40, 112 law; homicide; “trans panic” perspective, 47, 80, 92, 98, 105, defense 148, 156; perspectival situatedness, 14; perspectival thesis, names, 6–7, 20–24, 26, 64, 70, 102, 107 104, 114–15, 132, 153, 156, 158 phenomenological reduction, Natanson, Maurice, 65, 106–9, 105 111–12, 132–33 phenomenology, 165, 168, 179n5; National Center for Transgender anonymity in, 13–14, 103–34; Equality, 166 attention in, 15, 42, 48, 65, natural attitude, 106–7, 111–12, 133–34; break in, 42–43, 63– 121, 133 66, 91–92, 109–12; as eidetic neo-Nazis, 115 science, 14, 105; ethics of, Newsweek, 3–4 147–50, 159, 161; experience New York City, 57; Chelsea, 53; in, 5, 16–19, 43–47, 80, 105–6, Greenwich Village, 53 109, 111, 126–28, 143, 145, New York Times, 166 149–50; feminist, 14; gender normativity, 100, 109, 147–49; and, 12, 40–41, 103, 126–30; gender and, 5, 11, 23, 27, 30–31, genetic, 128; intention in, 48, 56, 58, 63, 66, 87, 102, 117, 129, 104, 126; as method, 11, 15–19, 145, 156, 168, 181n16 22, 41, 65, 95, 103, 105–7, 110– North Carolina, 164 13, 148–49, 161, 175n4; perception in, 15–16, 18, 66–67, 80, Obama, Barack, 87, 162, 164 82, 106–7, 111, 122–29, 144–45; objects, 13, 18, 47–49, 67, 96, 101, queer, 18–19; of walking, 40– 106, 123–25, 133, 180n9; gender 49 See also phenomenologiand, 14, 22, 26, 117, 135–60 cal reduction ontology, 91, 94, 150, 152; ontologi- photography, 22, 51, 53, 56–57, cal being of others, 125 135, 141 Oxnard, CA, Piaget, Jean, 144 Plato, 180n9 Parenti, Michael, 178n26 police/state violence, 88–94 pedagogy: erotics of, 96 positivism, 22 197 INDEX posture: upright, 12, 41–51, 176n23 privacy, 26, 28, 158, 163–64 problem of others, 125 projection (phenomenological), 18, 123, 125 projection (psychoanalytic): aggression and, 13, 29, 36–37, 89–91, 100, 142–43, 178n26 pronouns, 22–24, 26, 115 proprioception, 57 psychoanalysis, 101, 143 psychology, 6, 9, 41, 43–45, 58–59, 105; transphobic, 5, 31, 36 queerness, 18, 20, 50, 56, 96–102, 141, 179n17; gender and, 7, 10, 12–13, 27–28, 33, 36, 39, 52–53, 58, 83, 87, 152; race and, 91, 95, 98 See also gay identity; homosexuality; sexual orientation queer theory, 96–97, 98, 102 race, 17, 32, 49, 50; aggression read through, 5–6, 9–10, 13, 19–20, 30–31, 36, 38, 41, 53–55, 87–96, 100, 116, 143, 153, 158, 161, 168, 178n26; gendered, 19–23, 37– 40, 88, 91, 114; gesture and, 88– 89; queerness and, 91, 95, 98; at trial, 19–23, 38–40, 114–15 See also blackness; whiteness racism, 19, 23, 64, 87–90, 93–95, 115, 161 See also neo-Nazis; police/state violence; white supremacy Republican Party, 165 responsibility, 15, 56 retroactive crossing out, 153–60, 169 Reynolds, Jack, 104 Rodríguez, Juana María, 49 Rose, Jacqueline, 100–101 Saenz, Arthur, 86 San Francisco, CA, 52 Savage, Dan: “It Gets Better” campaign, 98–99, 101–2 #SayTheirNames, 20 Schütz, Alfred, 13, 65, 106–112, 121, 133 Sedgwick, Eve, 96–99, 102 sedimentation, 16, 109, 121–22, 127–28, 161 Senate Bill (TX), 163 Sessions, Jeff: Dear Colleague letter about bathrooms, 162 sex, 26–27, 71, 115, 137, 162–69 sex segregation, 163–64, 169 sexual assault, 30, 136, 163 sexual difference, 127–28 sexual harassment, 11–12, 28, 30– 31, 36–37, 63, 116, 118–19, 132, 153, 157, 163, 168–69 sexuality, 17–18, 46, 67, 112, 122, 124, 128, 137; aggression read through, 5–6, 9–10, 13, 19–20, 30–31, 36, 38, 41, 53–55, 90–92, 100, 116, 143, 153, 158, 161, 168, 178n26; embodiment and, 48–51, 67, 97, 103, 122; gender and, 3–8, 10–13, 24, 26–37, 39, 48–54, 56–59, 69–71, 83, 87, 103, 126, 151–54, 161, 168; race and, 37–40, 49, 114–15 See also sexual orientation 198 INDEX sexual orientation, 4–5, 7, 11, 18, 30, 39, 59, 151; mistaken for gender identity See also gay identity; heterosexuality; homosexuality; queerness Sheth, Falguni, 20 shock, 6, 57, 63–65, 109, 111–12, 168; of gender, 68–80, 137 Simi Valley, CA, 93 Sinclair, Anne, 54–56, 74–79 Snorton, C Riley, 20 social world, 14, 92, 106–7, 112, 122 sound, 12, 61, 64, 141; gender and, 11, 30, 66–80, 82, 87–88; race and, 87–88 South Dakota, 165 space, 123; bodily orientation in, 45; inhabiting, 50, 105, 142–43, 152; public, 162–69 Stoller, Sylvia, 126–27 Strangio, Chase, 165–66 Straus, Erwin, 12, 41–51 Stryker, Susan, 23 style: of dress, 54, 75, 77, 137; gendered, 34, 51, 71–72, 75, 85–87, 128–29, 137, 142; gesture and, 12, 68, 82–83, 85; of walking, 32, 36, 71–72, 86–87 suicide, 13, 95–102 Swanson, Dan, 40 transgender people, 5, 10, 13, 20– 24, 27, 29–31, 40, 50, 91, 97, 99, 101, 152, 157–58, 161–69, 162 transcendentalism, 14, 17, 106, 128; transcendentalist thesis, 107; transcendental phenomenology, 105 transitivity, 39–40, 110, 125, 151 “trans panic” defense, 21, 168 See also “trigger incident” transphobia, 10, 23–24, 29, 40–41, 85, 89–90, 161–62; in psychology, 5, 31, 36 See also bathroom bills; “trans panic” defense trans rights, 84, 166–67 transsexuality, 158 “trigger incident,” 58–60, 65 Trump, Donald, 161; administration’s Dear Colleague letter about bathrooms, 162–63, 166 the turn, 31, 56, 58–61, 154–56 ultra-things, 14, 144–47 U.S Department of Education, 162–63 U.S Department of Justice, 163 U.S Supreme Court, 164 “valentine” discourse, 3–4 Valentine Road, 3, 20, 151, 157–58 Ventura County Star, 25–28, 38–39 Texas, 163–64 Till, Emmett, 64 walking, 42–48, 50–51, 56–57, Title IX: gender identity and, 82, 111, 123, 133, 135, 142, 144; 162–64 gender and, 11–13, 30, 32, Tom of Finland, 49 34–37, 58–60, 63, 66–79, 83, transgender (category), 20, 23, 29, 86–87, 147 40, 163, 166 Wallon, Henri, 144 199 INDEX Weber, Travis, 167–68 Weiss, Gail, 80, 93 whiteness, 19, 40, 50, 98; violence of, 64, 87–88, 93–94 white supremacy, 9, 19, 39–40 See also neo-Nazis Wippert, Scott, 21, 138 Wolff, Tobias, 162 Yancy, George, 87–89 Young, Iris Marion, 12, 41, 45, 50 YouTube, 98 Zaner, Richard, 65, 110–12 Zimmerman, George: killing of Trayvon Martin, 89 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gayle Salamon is Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University Her research interests include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer and transgender theory, psychoanalysis, visual culture, and disability studies She lives in Brooklyn S E X UA L C U LT U R E S General Editors: Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers-Letson Founding Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini Titles in the series include: Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R Delany Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism Edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Martin F Manalansan IV Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces Juana María Rodríguez Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance Janet R Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture Frances Négron-Muntaner Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Marlon Ross In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives J Jack Halberstam Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual Robert Reid-Pharr The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lázaro Lima Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Scott Herring Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination Darieck Scott Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries Karen Tongson Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality Dwight A McBride Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading Martin Joseph Ponce God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence Michael Cobb Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Michael Cobb Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias Eng-Beng Lim Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance Uri McMillan Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law Isaac West A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Hiram Pérez The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A Joyce and Dwight A McBride Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings Juana María Rodríguez Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism Amber Jamilla Musser The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies Rachel C Lee Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men Jane Ward Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality Katherine Franke Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique Robert F Reid-Pharr Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible Malik Gaines The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia Gayle Salamon For a complete list of books in the series, see www.nyupress.org ... 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