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Rhyne, Ragan. "Racializing White Drag." Journal of Homosexuality. 46.3 (2004): 181-194. Web. 18 November 2013.
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Understanding the documentary subjects’ (poor, urban, black and Latino drag queens) performances of bourgeois femininity as coded via standards of unmarked whiteness,
bell hooks, for instance, argued that the film exploited the ways in which “colonized black people . . . worship at the throne of whiteness, even when such worship demands that we live in perpetual self-hate, steal, lie, go hungry, and even die in its pursuit”.
The drag pageantry in Paris Is Burning simultaneously appropriates and subverts “racist, misogynist, and homophobic norms of oppression".
bell hooks, for instance, argued that the film exploited the ways in which “colonized black people . . . worship at the throne of whiteness, even when such worship demands that we live in perpetual self-hate, steal, lie, go hungry, and even die in its pursuit”.
The drag pageantry in Paris Is Burning simultaneously appropriates and subverts “racist, misogynist, and homophobic norms of oppression".
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Rhyne, Ragan. "Racializing White Drag." Journal of Homosexuality. 46.3 (2004): 181-194. Web. 18 November 2013.
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