Introduction : the seduction of freedom -- Pt. 1. Demarcating the space of domination : the politics of freedom -- 1. Liberalism's neutral individual : delimiting racial and sexual difference -- 2. Is the mirror racist? : interrogating the space of whiteness -- 3. The place of sexual difference : idealizing heterosexual desire -- Pt. 2. Moving toward resistance : a politics without a future -- 4. Free to be queer : queer to be free -- 5. The temporality of whiteness : anticipating pleasure (and feeling nothin' but guilty) -- 6. The freedom of sovereignty : remembering lost pasts -- Epilogue : a political note against same-sex marriage.