Black Queer Studies

A Critical Anthology

Author: Johnson, E. Patrick; Henderson, Mae G.; Holland, Sharon Patricia; Cohen, Cathy J.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822336297
eISBN Pdf: 9780822387220
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 2005
Month: November
Pages: 400
DDC: 306.76/6/072
Language: English

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While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States. Bringing together essays by established and emergent scholars, this collection assesses the strengths and weaknesses of prior work on race and sexuality and highlights the theoretical and political issues at stake in the nascent field of black queer studies. Including work by scholars based in English, film studies, black studies, sociology, history, political science, legal studies, cultural studies, and performance studies, the volume showcases the broadly interdisciplinary nature of the black queer studies project.

The contributors consider representations of the black queer body, black queer literature, the pedagogical implications of black queer studies, and the ways that gender and sexuality have been glossed over in black studies and race and class marginalized in queer studies. Whether exploring the closet as a racially loaded metaphor, arguing for the inclusion of diaspora studies in black queer studies, considering how the black lesbian voice that was so expressive in the 1970s and 1980s is all but inaudible today, or investigating how the social sciences have solidified racial and sexual exclusionary practices, these insightful essays signal an important and necessary expansion of queer studies.

Contributors. Bryant K. Alexander, Devon Carbado, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Keith Clark, Cathy Cohen, Roderick A. Ferguson, Jewelle Gomez, Phillip Brian Harper, Mae G. Henderson, Sharon P. Holland, E. Patrick Johnson, Kara Keeling, Dwight A. McBride, Charles I. Nero, Marlon B. Ross, Rinaldo Walcott, Maurice O. Wallace

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword: ‘‘Home’’ Is a Four-Letter Word
Introduction: Queering BlackStudies/‘‘Quaring’’ Queer Studies
I. DISCIPLINARY TENSIONS:BLACK STUDIES/QUEER STUDIES
- Punks, Bulldaggers, and WelfareQueens: The Radical Potential ofQueer Politics?
- Race-ing Homonormativity:Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity
- Straight Black Studies: On African American Studies, James Baldwin,and Black Queer Studies
- Outside in Black Studies: Readingfrom a Queer Place in the Diaspora
- The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Experience, Everyday Life,and Critical Speculative Knowledge
- ‘‘Quare’’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother
II. REPRESENTING THE‘‘RACE’’: BLACKNESS, QUEERS,AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY
- Beyond the Closet as Raceless Paradigm
- Privilege
- ‘‘Joining the Lesbians’’: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility
- Why Are Gay Ghettoes White?
III. HOW TO TEACH THE UNSPEAKABLE: RACE, QUEERSTUDIES, AND PEDAGOGY
- Embracing the Teachable Moment: The Black Gay Body in the Classroom as Embodied Text
- Are We Family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness
- On Being a Witness: Passion, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of James Baldwin
IV. BLACK QUEER FICTION: WHO IS ‘‘READING’’ US?
- But Some of Us Are Brave Lesbians:The Absence of Black Lesbian Fiction
- James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room:Expatriation, ‘‘Racial Drag,’’ and Homosexual Panic
- Robert O’Hara’s Insurrection:‘‘Que(e)rying History’’
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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