1169 - Sexual Racism

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Sexual racism has long been a concern for social scientists; as Charles Stember argued 40 years ago, the race "problem" is also a sex(uality) problem. Scholars have been returning recently to these critical connections between race and sexuality, particularly in studies of online dating, but there's a need to understand the contours of sexual and romantic intimacy in this time of heightened tensions and nationalist sentiment. This session examines the role of race and racism within the context(s) of sexual and/or intimate relationships, especially intersectionally examining the racism within sexuality and the sexuality within racism. In particular, this panel examines how sexual racism is embedded in structures that are not only 'dating scenes.'

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Sexualities / Sexual Racism

Session Organizer

• Jason Orne, Drexel University

Individual Presentations

• Counting the Costs: Relationship Formation Among Black and White College-educated Women - Sarah Adeyinka-Skold, University of Pennsylvania

• Intimacy in the Shadow of Bases: Heroic Love and Exploitative Sex Myths - Victoria Reyes, University of California-Riverside

• Teachers’ Agency and Reproducing Racial Hierarchy in Mississippi’s Sex Education Classrooms - Sarah "Izzy" Pellegrine, Mississippi State University

• We Got Cheap Beer and Hipsters; They Got Beefcakes and Martinis: How Gay Men Choose Bars - R. Kyle Saunders, West Virginia University

Discussant

• Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Florida State University