Disciplining Desire: Rethinking Racial Capitalism Through Black Queer Resistance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT In Black communities, heteronormativity installs the belief that Black people are inherently straight, erasing Black Queer histories. Despite its significance, homophobia remains underexamined in racial capitalism discourse, which neglects the interplay of race, gender, sexuality, and capital. This omission reinforces harmful narratives that Queerness is “un‐African.” This paper employs Foucauldian genealogy to uncover how Black people have lived otherwise, tracing the disciplinary mechanisms enforcing heteronormativity. Sexual violence and exploitation are shown as central to racial capitalism, sustaining racial and economic domination. I argue that heteronormativity disciplines Black sexuality and perpetuates exploitation, illuminating racial capitalism's uneven impacts on Black Queer, Trans, and Women of Color. The paper highlights the radical potential of Black Queer resistance to disrupt heterosexual orthodoxy and inspire transformative Black political imaginaries. Findings contribute to a reimagined racial capitalism discourse, attuned to the interplay of race, sexuality, and gender.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.049 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".