It is difficult to imagine that drag is not a type of stage activity and being part of a theatrical performance. Contreras also highlights Ester Newton's book, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America. In framing the importance of drag to queer theory, it is also important to consider the practice of drag as a particular expression of racial identity as well (Contreras, 2005). In this book, Contreras explains that drag's relationship to sexual and racial identities is discussed in a context where academic work on drag is relatively visible, such as Marjorie Garber's books Vested Interest: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety in which she eliminate these