"Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother
Abstract
Although queer studies has the potential to transform the way scholars theorize sexuality in conjunction with other identity formations, the paucity of attention given to race and class in queer studies represents a significant theoretical gap. Most current formulations of queer theory either ignore the categories of race and class altogether or theorize their effects in discursive rather than material terms. To suture that gap, this essay proposes "quare" studies as a vernacular rearticulation and deployment of queer theory to accommodate racialized sexual knowledge.
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Johnson calls for quare theory: queer theoretical research focusing explicitly on LGBTQ+ people of colour and critically examining white queer culture.
“Considering race as it intersects with LGBTQ+ identities, specifically, Johnson (2001) calls for quare theory: queer theoretical research which focuses explicitly on LGBTQ+ people of colour and critically examines (white) queer culture.”
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- Authors
- Johnson, E. P.
- Corresponding author
- Johnson, E. Patrick
- Venue
- Text and Performance Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2001-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-25
- ISSN
- 0734-0796 (ISSN-L)
- 1046-2937
- 1479-5760
- OpenAlex
- W1969676425
- Cited by
- 635
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 68 · 2021: 51 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 17.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Text and Performance Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
- Keywords
- queer studies, queer theory, race, class, materiality, intergenerational knowledge, grandmother, sexuality and identity
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