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Black queer studies : a critical anthology / E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Study and teaching.
- African Americans.
- Gay and lesbian studies--United States.
- Gay and lesbian studies.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Gay people--United States--Identity.
- Gay people.
- Lesbians--United States--Identity.
- Lesbians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (394 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies.
- Contents:
- Punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens: the radical potential of queer politics? / Cathy J. Cohen
- Race-ing homonormativity: citizenship, sociology, and gay identity / Roderick A. Ferguson
- Straight Black studies: on African American studies, James Baldwin, and Black queer studies / Dwight A. McBride
- Outside in Black studies: reading from a queer place in the diaspora / Rinaldo Walcott
- The evidence of felt intuition: minority experience, everyday life, and critical speculative knowledge / Phillip Brian Harper
- "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother / E. Patrick Johnson
- Beyond the closet as raceless paradigm / Marlon B. Ross
- Privilege / Devon W. Carbado
- "Joining the lesbians": cinematic regimes of Black lesbian visibility / Kara Keeling
- Why are gay ghettoes White? / Charles I. Nero
- Embracing the teachable moment: the Black gay body in the classroom as embodied text / Bryant Keith Alexander
- Are we family? pedagogy and the race for queerness / Keith Clark
- On being a witness: passion, pedagogy, and the legacy of James Baldwin / Maurice O. Wallace
- But some of us are brave lesbians: the absence of Black lesbian fiction / Jewelle Gomez
- James Baldwin's Giovanni's room: expatriation, "racial drag," and homosexual panic / Mae G. Henderson
- Robert O'Hara's Insurrection: "que(e)rying history" / Faedra Chatard Carpenter.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-02210-9
- 9786613022103
- 0-8223-8722-0
- OCLC:
- 220949951
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