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Aberrations

In his book Aberrations in Black Toward a Queer of Color Critique”, Ferguson reveals how African American are placed outside heteronormative patriarchal norms and how racial segregation is a way in which capitalism keep gender and sexuality norms. Ferguson also suggests that there is a relationship between property, capital and prostitution. Property relations within tribal communities are heterosexual and patriarchal arrangements. It is interesting the relationship between capitalism and prostitution because the symbol of prostitution was used by Marx to represent the man’s dehumanization (Ferguson p.7). Prostitution was the representation of man’s feminization. Wage labor did not allow a man to be independent by himself and that need forced him to become prostitute and sell himself to his work to get capital and survive. In nineteen century the prostitute was a racial metaphor for the gender and sexual confusion created by capital, which related the figure of prostitute to sexual savagery of black women and to establish nonwhite sexuality as the alliance for other kinds of womanhood. While the industrial capital was developing working-class white women with a limited income, but the prostitute became the racialized figure that represented demonstrations against those changes.

On the other hand, the transition from an industrial economy to a post-industrial economy created a slope in manufacturing jobs, but at the same time occurred an increase in service jobs, in the private sector and government jobs as well. This improved the development of different social classes among African Americans. Ferguson also explains this relationship between capital, property and prostitution is related to “queer of color” because capital produces different kinds of social creations as the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class that surpass the limits of what is considered the rationalized gender and the sexual ideas of the different individuals and the same time the queer of color represents the malformations of modern society.