Insurgent Intimacies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4883526
AutoresChelsea Schields (0000-0001-9602-3749)
Año2020
Volumen2020
Número136
Páginas98-110
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-7857283
OpenAlexW3005809256
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

This article examines the intertwined arguments for sexual revolution and decolonization in the Dutch Atlantic in the 1960s and 1970s. In this period, Antillean activists in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles celebrated aspects of the Cuban Revolution and the US Black Power movement for their purported ability to regenerate romantic love. Activists contended that socialism and antiracist activism could forge new bonds of erotic equality to explode the ongoing effects of colonialism, slavery, and the regimes of sexual violence that maintained both. Considering the centrality of sexual politics to Antillean radical imaginaries, this article argues that Antilleans viewed sexual liberation as a primary rather than ancillary component of self-determination. Illuminating the Atlantic currents that informed Antillean arguments for insurgent forms of intimacy-from revolutionary Cuba to black struggle in the United States-this article reconceives of both the substance and geography of the sexual revolution

Black Power · Colonialism · Communism · Decolonization · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sexual revolution · Socialism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society