Race / Sex / Gender in Cultural Representations

Critical theory and cultural representations in a variety of media that address issues surrounding the representation of race, gender, sexuality and politics. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? Is it desirable to envision a bridging of queer communities of color, or a transnational, transfronterizo or global network?