Description: Zachary Blair is an anthropologist who researches and writes about urban development, violence, & political economy, attending to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
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Machine of Desire
A critical examination of gay neighborhoods as spaces that produce racial violence. While both popular and scientific understandings of modern gay neighborhoods position these spaces as sites of resistance, equality, sexual citizenship, and utopian desires, I argue that gay neighborhoods have historically operated, and continue to operate, as productive sites of violence and, particularly, as mechanisms of racial violence.
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