In this critique of the fields of feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory, Sharon Holland describes how, despite decades of theoretical and political work focused on race, we are continually affected by everyday experiences of racism and attached to old patterns of racist thought.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Last Word on Racism 1
1. Race: There's No Place like "Beyond" 17
2. Desire, or "A Bit of the Other" 41
3. S.H.E.: Reproducing Discretion as the Better Part of (Queer) Valor 65
Conclusion: Racism's Last Word 95
Notes 115
Bibliography 147
Index 161