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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aberrations in Black is a significant contribution to ‘queer of color critique’ and to black cultural studies more generally."—Black Cultural Studies
"Intelligent and cogent critiques. Wonderfully intoxicating readings of canonical sociology. Those interested in engaging how fictions of heterosexuality are transformed into pragmatic policy or in how crucial an understanding of racial discourses is to an understanding of queerness in American life will find Ferguson’s study indispensable."—American Literature
"A thought provoking experience. Ferguson offers insight into the idea of ‘normal’ and provides deeper study into queer theory, Marxism, feminist theory, and African American criticism and how they all intersect."—Altar magazine
"Unapologetically interdisciplinary, thoroughly historicized, and effortlessly theoretical, Aberrations is a refreshing polemic that disrupts some of our comfortably held scholarly grand narratives."—Journal of the History of Sexuality
"Aberrations in Black represents an impressive scholarly debut by one of the leading young minds in the profession."—Journal of the History of Sexuality
