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Contents Acknowledgments • ix Introduction: The Seduction of Freedom • 1 PART ONE. DEMARCATING THE SPACE OF DOMINATION: THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM 1. Liberalism’s Neutral Individual: Delimiting Racial and Sexual Difference • 23 2. Is the Mirror Racist? Interrogating the Space of Whiteness • 58 3. The Place of Sexual Difference: Idealizing Heterosexual Desire • 78 PART TWO. MOVING TOWARD RESISTANCE: A POLITICS WITHOUT A FUTURE 4. Free to Be Queer: Queer to Be Free • 111 5. The Temporality of Whiteness: Anticipating Pleasure (And Feeling Nothin’ But Guilty) • 150 6. The Freedom of Sovereignty: Remembering Lost Pasts • 176 Epilogue: A Political Note against Same-Sex Marriage • 201 Notes • 209 References • 239 Index • 247 ...

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