Ambivalent Affinities : A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Jennifer Dominique.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, Power, and Politics Series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Summary:

In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch.These comparisons, however, have a longer history.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Abbreviations

A Note on Language

Introduction

Part I. Black Civil Rights Organizations and Sexual Exclusion in Early Cold War America

1. To Stand upon My Constitutional Rights: The NAACP Veterans' Affairs Bureau and World War II-Era Sexual Exclusion, 1945-1950

2. These Attempts of Our Enemies to Blacken My Character: The National Urban League and the Political Uses of Homophobia, 1956-1957

Part II. The Sexual Deployments of White Supremacists

3. Freedom March Makes Queers Bed Fellows: Sexual Rumors and the 1965 Alabama Voting Rights Demonstrations

4. Nobody Has the Right to Turn Us into a Nation of Queers: Race and Homosexuality in White Supremacist Propaganda,1961-1975

Part III. Gay Political Visions and the Politics of Estrangement

5. Civil Rights and Moral Wrongs: The Politics of Gay Visibility in Atlanta, 1976-1989

6. Saving the RACE: The SCLC/WOMEN and Ambivalent Approaches to HIV/AIDS, 1986-1993

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Jones, Jennifer Dominique Ambivalent Affinities

ISBN:

9798890854452

9781469673585

OCLC:

1402811683