Racializing Sex: Same-Sex Relations, German Colonial Authority, and Deutschtum

Walther, Daniel

doi:10.1353/sex.2008.0001

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“…White settler society was far from homogenous and social contestations around class played a signifi cant role. Social and legal control around proper sexuality helped uphold class hegemony (Walther 2008). But additionally, the racialised and sexualised space of 'colonial intimacy' of the colonial household made it impossible to 'uphold veneer of propriety in perpetual presence of servants' and made white privacy unsustainable (Schmidt 2008, 59).…”

Section: [German East Africa] Scandalmentioning

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Colonial Intimacies

Vögele

2022

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This paper contends that relations of property and propriety of “western modernity” engender and articulate different forms of violence, crucially including sexualised violence. Going beyond the limits of dominant frameworks and liberal feminism’s approaches to violence, this paper takes seriously the need to trace how modern ways of relating are intimately connected to colonial modes of dispossession and propertisation. Therefore, I draw on historical resources and present a constellation history with fragments from the context of relations of intimacy in German colonial rule. This shows how hegemonic family relations and marriage laws were used to control access to land and resources, as well as workers and their bodies. Logics of imperial intervention in sexuality and the use of sexualised violence extend beyond this specific spatio-temporal context into the present. This highlights how categories of race, gender and sexuality develop with, through and for, proprietary relations. The ambiguous role of white women vis-à-vis colonial relations of ownership reinforces a critique of limited approaches of liberal feminism and stresses the importance of anti-colonial organizing against violence.

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Section: [German East Africa] Scandalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonial Intimacies

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2022

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“…When the colonialists arrived on the continent during the nineteenth century in search of economic opportunities and political-religious security, they certainly shifted the shape and contours of the handprint of African sexualities—particularly its formal aspects. Through an elaborate “othering” process African sexualities were depicted as primitive, deviant, and excessive (see Geshekter 1995; McClintock 1995; Abrahams 1997; Magubane 2001), an important maneuver in creating the justification and ideological foundation for the colonialists’ “civilizing” mission on the “dark” continent and the construction of the colonial empire (Walther 2008). In line with this philosophy, the sexualities of Africans were represented in “natural” heterosexual and reproductive terms.…”

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Confronting the Politics of Nonconforming Sexualities in Africa

Tamale¹

2013

Afr. stud. rev.

116

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Abstract:The connections between democracy and sexuality-that is, between civil liberties and the protection of nonconforming sexualities-are rarely discussed in Africa. On the contrary, nonconforming sexualities have been instrumentalized to entrench dictatorships and to weaken democracy. As was the case in early twentieth-century Europe and North America, homophobia has become a political tool used by conservative politicians to promote self-serving agendas. Heterosexuality is also idealized by an acute ahistoricization of African politics by the Western media and civil society. The problem is also compounded by the distortion of African history promulgated by the dictatorial leadership on the continent.Résumé: Les rapports entre démocratie et sexualité-c'est-à-dire entre les libertés civiles et la protection des sexualités hors normes-sont rarement sujets à discussion en Afrique. Au contraire, les sexualités hors normes ont été utilisées comme instrument de renforcement pour les dictatures et d'affaiblissement pour la démocratie. Comme c'était le cas au début du vingtième siècle en Europe et en Amérique du nord, l'homophobie est devenue un outil politique utilisé par les politiciens conservateurs pour promouvoir des agendas personnels. En ignorant l'évolution historique de la politique africaine hors du temps, les médias occidentaux

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Implementing Hostility and Acceptance: LGBTQ Persecution, Rights, and Mobility in the Context of Western Moral Entrepreneurship

Fox

2018

LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees From a Legal and Political Perspective

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Racializing Sex: Same-Sex Relations, German Colonial Authority, and Deutschtum

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Colonial Intimacies

Colonial Intimacies

Confronting the Politics of Nonconforming Sexualities in Africa

Implementing Hostility and Acceptance: LGBTQ Persecution, Rights, and Mobility in the Context of Western Moral Entrepreneurship

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