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assignment #9

In the book Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, Roderick Ferguson described the characteristics of connection between property, capital, and prostitution within the idea of society of capitalism. Roderick Ferguson described this with the term called “queer of color” analysis. He described this as nascent and emergent formation that pass over gender and sexual idea of racialized boundary.  When he talked about the history of America, it showed how hierarchy of the society started to build based upon the background of industrialization, and social status and labor division. In addition, there was exclusion of African American in United States so that it led to lack of human rights and they treated as slaves. This discrimination and racism showed the lack of right in economic and racial status. In the beginning, Roderick Ferguson explained the pictures that describe the discrimination and racism during this period. And then he connected to the sexual status, which shows patriarchy of man over women and children. In the introduction, he focused his analysis on Marlon Rigg’s “Tongues United, which described drag queen prostitute who is black. This way of earning income made them lesser than the normal way of earning money so that it made prostitute against the social norm of property, capital and prostitution. Prostitution considered as illegal in most of the countries. However, the fact that both black and prostitute made more connection to the Roderick Ferguson’s queer of color anaylsis, because both black and prostitute was considered as lower status compared to norm. therefore, if there was a prostitute who is black, this would make them face more problematic situation than the other prostitute. since it showed the combination of black and prostitute, which are both inferior things, they were in position where people won’t accept them in society as same as other, and this represent the queer of color.