“A smart, courageous, and at times unsettling indictment of LGBTQ complicity with xenophobic violence. If you care deeply about social justice, read this brilliant book.”
— Julia Chinyere Oparah, Mills College and co-editor of Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change
“A brilliant analysis which shatters the singularity of the universal gay/trans subject to expose hir collusion in the production of the 'homophobic Muslim.' This highly engaging book is a must-read for all concerned with issues of justice, demilitarization, and radical transformation in global politics.”
— Sunera Thobani, University of British Columbia
“This exciting book by one of the most brilliant emerging scholars today brings a novel approach to 'queer gentrification' and a host of new concepts pertaining to space, queer and trans subjects of color, race, sexuality, and violence.”
— Paola Bacchetta, University of California, Berkeley
“An original and highly impactful contribution to critical race and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and urban studies. The quality of the research is impeccable, and the reach of the book’s pedagogical and intellectual contributions demonstrates the best potentials of critical interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship.”
— Dylan Rodríguez, University of California, Riverside
“Seamlessly synthesizes the relationships between Islamophobia, racism within Europe and the United States, and how the global war on terror serves to reinforce the politics of homo-nationalism. Brilliant and fierce, a must-read for all those interested in imagining new liberatory politics.”
— Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside
“Queer Lovers and Hateful Others is a trenchant and unrelenting critical gaze at the tensions between a nascent people-of-color consciousness and the swirling turbulence of homophobia and xenophobia in twenty-first century Germany. Haritaworn offers the promise and perils of encounters between activist practices, quotidian aspiration, legal statutes, and other forces that animate and bring to life alternative ways of inhabiting marginalized spaces and times. More than just a sensitive portrait of lives, sites, and energies, this book is an incitement to think queerly, to dream otherwise.”
— Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“In an exemplary intersectional cultural analysis, Haritaworn explores racial and sexual formations in contemporary and historical Berlin. Based on interviews with Queers and Trans of Color,Queer Lovers and Hateful Others is a timely intervention in many current debates, from the privileging of the memory of the Holocaust as the main architecture of German racism, via the genealogy of the ‘homophobic Muslim,’ to the loss of the memory of slavery and colonialism in white (gay) citizens, the author accomplishes an impressive, in-depth portrait of German homonationalism. A must-read!”
— Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University and author of The Politics of Passion and White Innocence
“Queer Lovers and Hateful Others constitutes a sophisticated masterpiece of decolonial queer/transgender theory. Taking as its point of departure the experiences of queer/transgender people of color, the author analyzes the complex time, space, intimacy, racial, and class dimensions of the colonial project of queer regeneration in neoliberal urban spaces. The author uses a wide range of fields of scholarship, such as transnational gender studies, disability studies, and queer studies, as well as race and transgender studies, without falling into a reductionist identity politics by contextualizing the urban processes within the context of the global political economy of our times. The author examines queer spatial formations in the neo-liberal city in relation to questions of spatial racialization and gentrification showing the profound racial splits between white queers and queers of color. The book keeps a comparative perspective among global cities of the North. Dr. Haritaworn’s book is an important antidote to discourses about queer spaces that evade race and class. The author criticizes the celebratory and uncritical view of the white left with regard to gay imperialism and its complicities with the neoliberal city. It is a must-read for anyone interested in decolonial perspectives and postcolonial horizons."
— Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley
"Queer Lovers and Hateful Others proves to be an essential contribution to the queer ethnic studies discussions that Haritaworn cites as a potential site for insurgent knowledge formation that resists, rather than diversifies, violent systems. This book opens up space for such resistance."
— QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking