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IMAGINING ALLIANCE:
QUEER ANTI-IMPERIALISM AND RACE IN CALIFORNIA, 1966-1990
by
Emily K. Hobson
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Emily K. Hobson
Object Description
| Title | Imagining alliance: queer anti-imperialism and race in California, 1966-1990 |
| Author | Hobson, Emily K. |
| Author email | hobson@femst.ucsb.edu; ekhobson@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-01 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-08-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sánchez, George |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Román, David Gilmore, Ruth Wilson Kelley, Robin Deverell, William |
| Abstract | This dissertation considers the meanings that radical critiques of empire carried for queer activism in California from the high Sixties through the Reagan Era. A social movement history, the dissertation draws on organizational archives, periodicals, memoirs and collected oral histories, and ephemera to closely consider queer radicals’ political language, ideological debates, and activist work. Moving across an era marked at its outset by the founding of the Black Panther Party (1966) and at its end by the defeat of the Nicaraguan Revolution (1990), the study reveals the transformative meanings that racial militancy, national liberation, and international solidarity held for radical sexual politics in the latter half of the Cold War.; Queer radicals drew ideas and inspiration from sources including the Third World Left and Marxist-Leninism, socialist feminism and women of color feminism, and the Latin American left. They used anti-imperialism to define sexual liberation, build activist coalition, and remake local queer community. More broadly, they used anti-imperialism to construct a politics of alliance and a discourse of lesbian and gay space. But queer anti-imperialism also held contradictions. Claims on space carried implicit ties to white and U.S. privilege; calls for alliance rested on solidarity with national liberation projects that often rejected queer identities.; The dissertation details how activists understood and sought to resolve these contradictions within the local landscapes of California and during three successive phases of queer politics: the gay liberation era (1966-1973); the gay and lesbian left (1973-1980); and lesbian and gay solidarity with Central America (1979-1990). Queer of color activists, especially lesbians of color, became central actors in critiquing both gay and straight nationalisms and in analyzing the intersections of sexuality and race in structures of global capital and U.S. power. This study identifies the story of queer anti-imperialism as central in narrating a more multiracial and transnational queer history, as well as for fully integrating questions of sexuality into analyses of the “long 1960s” and their legacies through the 1980s and today. |
| Keyword | gay; lesbian; queer; race; radicalism; anti-imperialism; California; activism; 1960s |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | 1966/1990 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2554 |
| Rights | Hobson, Emily K. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Hobson-3033 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Hobson-3033.pdf |
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| Full text | IMAGINING ALLIANCE: QUEER ANTI-IMPERIALISM AND RACE IN CALIFORNIA, 1966-1990 by Emily K. Hobson A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Emily K. Hobson |
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