Sexual Racism In The 1900's

Sexual Racism can be seen in medicine starting in the 1900’s. In 1907, the first forced sterilization laws went into effect in Indiana (Rivard 1). These laws lasted for around 40 years, in which many of the “undesirable” populations were subject to forced sterilizations to “better the population”. Minorities and the poor where specifically targeted, especially Native women in America (Jarvenpa 18). It was not uncommon for a woman to go into a hospital to deliver a child, and to leave sterile. This often happened in doctor’s appointments as well. The Tuskegee experiment, is another example. The experiment was supposed to assess the untreated effects of syphilis. Stevenson writes, “Four hundred Black men were not treated for a disease that …show more content…
Sexual racism can look a little different between the two, and it’s important to note what the can behavior look like in straight people first. From the moment a child is born, they are raised to be straight. In the straight community, there are several ways of displaying sexual racism. Types of sexual racism should be discussed in order to better understand what is happening in more closed communities. In straight communities, he most common type of sexual racism seems to deal with fetishization. This is what should be examined first. Often, this is thought of as White men are seen coveting women of other races, Yellow Fever would be an example of this. Yellow Fever is a phrase that is used when a person dates or is exclusively attracted to women of Asian ancestry (Matthews 1). This is a type of sexual racism because these men often have ideas about these women based on offensive stereotypes, that have nothing to do with these individual women. These are base examples of what are obvious examples of sexual racism. There are also cases of the opposite, like black men who refuse to date black women because they are seen as undesirable in society. Women also display fetishization, particularly non-black women who seek out black men because of stereotypes about their bodies. This is a particularly invasive form of sexual racism. Makoni wrote, “Labelling black …show more content…
There seems to be a focus on this phenomenon in the LGBT community because of its’ relative newness. The LGBT community has always existed, but it has been allowed to happen in the public eye over the last few years. So, what is it that seems to have the LGBT community up in arms? Sexual racism can be seen since our founding, so what is it that seems to have caught the attention of the public? In this case, it is thought that sexual racism is far more blatant in the LGBT community, with men having sayings like, “No fats, no femmes, no Asians,” at the top of their Grindr profiles. Mary Plummer discusses this thoroughly in her work, Sexual Racism in Gay communities: Negotiating the Ethnosexual Marketplace. Her research says that gay men report more instances of stereotyping with in the gay male community. She discussed this by stating, "Not only did gay men of all races point to the higher prevalence of ethnosexual stereotyping within the gay community...but they described it as a primary dimension of commodification in the sexual market place. Whether enacted by White gay men seeking experiences with the sexual caricatures drawn by these ethnosexual stereotypes, or by gay men of color who, having internalized these stereotypes, tout their racial characteristics as a "sales pitch" to lure the prized White gaze," (Plummer 29). It should be noted that this seems to be happening in far larger