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At the Crossroads of Language, Race, and Sexuality
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This chapter explores how researchers have examined race and sexuality as mutually implicated dimensions of language use and interpretation. While past descriptions of language have inadvertently conflated these dimensions by foregrounding certain speakers and erasing others, recent research has decentered the privileged gaze of whiteness and heterosexuality by examining the language of racially and sexually marginalized communities and by exploring the semiotic mapping of hierarchies of race onto those of sexuality. The chapter analyzes interactions among Korean American girls who highlight the sexual value of locally racialized body parts, illustrating how their acts of intersectional highlighting allow them to contest the sexual devaluation of Korean bodies while reproducing the very ideologies they challenge. Researchers are encouraged to reflexively consider their own strategies of intersectional highlighting by asking what ends are served—and not served—when making intersectional facts visible in their analyses.
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Chun and Walters argued that Korean American girls engage in 'intersectional highlighting' when articulating their perceived sexual desirability by drawing attention to their shared social location as Asian girls, in opposition to their white peers.
“Chun and Walters argued that the girls engage in 'intersectional highlighting' when articulating their perceived sexual desirability by drawing attention to their shared social location as Asian girls, specifically, in opposition to their white peers.”
From ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2025) · cites this paper as Chun & Walters, 2021
A key finding is that Austin and Koa engage in intersectional highlighting practices to foreground their multiple marginalisation, while Freya, Dylan, Amber and Holly do not invoke their race in the same way.
“a key finding from my analysis here is that, although Austin and Koa engage in intersectional highlighting practices (Chun & Walters, 2021) to foreground their multiple marginalisation, my other participants -Freya, Dylan, Amber and Holly -do not invoke their race in the same way.”
From ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2025) · cites this paper as Chun & Walters, 2021
Koa engages in intersectional highlighting, making the ways in which their race informs their experience as a lesbian an observable, relevant fact of the ongoing discourse.
“They therefore engage in intersectional highlighting, making the ways in which their race informs their experience as a lesbian 'an observable, relevant fact of the ongoing discourse' (Chun & Walters, 2021: 7).”
From ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2025) · cites this paper as Chun & Walters, 2021
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- Authors
- Chun, E., & Walters, K.
- Affiliations
- University of South Carolina (US)
- Portland State University (US)
- Venue
- The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2021-01-13
- OpenAlex
- W3127195738
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 9.92
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
- Keywords
- race, sexuality, intersectionality, whiteness, heteronormativity, marginalized communities, semiotics, reflexivity, language and identity
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