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On Queer of Color Criticism, Communication Studies, and Corporeality

Queer of color criticism offers an intersectional approach to theorizing identity and subjectivity. Moreover, a select number of critical communication scholars increasingly turn to queer of color criticism as an especially effective means of interrogating the performative constitution of difference particularly as it emerges We can trace the roots of queer of color criticism to queer of color theorists in the 1970s who were troubled by the heteronormativity of ethnic studies and communities of color as well as the whiteness of queer theory. At the same time, women of color feminists—most of whom were also the queer of color theorists—articulated frustration with the predominance of whiteness in US American feminism and the sexism that was prevalent in anti-racist spaces. Taken together, queer of color criticism is a multidimensional analytic approach to criticism. In his germinal text, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, Roderick Ferguson (2003) defines queer of color criticism thusly: Interrogat[ion] of social formations at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class, with particular attention in how those formations correspond with and diverge from nationalist ideals and practices. Queer of color analysis is a heterogeneous enterprise made up of woman of color feminism, materialist analysis, poststructuralist theory, and queer critique. (2005) offer the following questions, which have evolved into predominant meditative points guiding much contemporary queer of color criticism (and queer theory more broadly): " What does queer studies have to say about empire, globalization, neoliberalism, sovereignty, and terrorism? What does queer studies tell us about immigration, citizenship, prisons, welfare, mourning, and human rights? " (p. 2). Roderick (2003) and Eng, Halberstam, and Muñoz's (2005) words frame the performative boundaries that constitute much of queer of color criticism, which has since developed into a variety of perspectives and interventions. A recent collection edited by Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson (2011) articulates strange affinities. That is to say, Hong and Ferguson move queer of color criticism, an extension of woman of color feminism to be sure, toward a broader project of comparative racialization. Their project seeks ways in which disparate groups come together in coalition in ways that extend beyond traditional theorizations of racial identification and solidarity. They argue that the task of queer of color criticism and woman of color feminism is to " create a language to describe what has been rendered unknowable through normative comparative method[s] " and that " an …