In The Feeling of Kinship David L. Eng investigates the emergence of queer liberalismthe empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our colorblind age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v. Texas the landmark legal decision overturning Texass antisodomy statute Eng reveals how the ghosts of miscegenation haunt both Lawrence and the advent of queer liberalism.

Eng develops the concept of queer diasporas as a critical response to queer liberalism. A methodology drawing attention to new forms of family and kinship accounts of subjects and subjectivities and relations of affect and desire the concept differs from the traditional notions of diaspora?? theo