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—St Paul, March 1993, at the Race, Culture, Power lecture series at the
University of New Hampshire, March 1994, and at the University of Massachusetts
— Amherst, April 1996. I want to thank the Center for the Humanities and the
Graduate School at the University of New Hampshire for their generous support of
this research. Thanks also to Terry Brown, Briankle Chang and Lisa Henderson for
their support and assistance.
2 Homi Bhabha (1992) has argued that the notion of ambivalence constitutes the
force of colonial stereotype, because the vacillation between the ‘already known’
and the ‘endlessly repeated’ produces the combined effect of predictability and
probability, thereby ensuring the sign of the colonial Other as one of excess. I
suggest that the desire for the colonial Other in the developing world assumes just
such excess, especially in economic and cultural terms.
3 The best discussion of the popular constructions of ‘African AIDS’ to date are
Patton (1990:77–97), Treichler (1989), and Watney (1994).
4 This passage is inspired by Enloe’s (1992) excellent essay on the military
construction of masculinity.

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