{"product_id":"black-queer-studies-9780822336297","title":"Black Queer Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlack Queer Studies\u003c\/i\u003e makes a dynamic contribution to the shifting landscape of queer studies. This volume will surely transform our understandings of both black studies and queer studies, and it will create new idioms for the analysis and theorization of race and sexuality. \u003ci\u003eBlack Queer Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is necessary and long overdue.”—Judith Halberstam, author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are moments of epistemological excitement that recognize changes already ongoing, and then there are moments that at the same time both recognize and generate new ways of knowing. The creation of \u003ci\u003eBlack Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e is such a moment. It changes our horizons of thought. I’m excited about its effect on my thinking and grateful to the contributors and editors for the boundary stretching.”—Wahneema Lubiano, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe House That Race Built\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This fine collection of essays demonstrates the importance of black queer quests and questions.”—Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of \u003ci\u003eImpossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cogent, dealing well with some of the race\/gender topics addressed intelligently in studies such as William Hawkeswood's \u003ci\u003eOne of the Children \u003c\/i\u003e(1996) and Roderick Ferguson's \u003ci\u003eAberrations in Black\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).  Recommended.” -- R B Shuman * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Insightful. . . . From the racial segregation that can occur in gay neighborhoods to current debates about the depiction of black gays and lesbians in film, many of the essays pursue important questions about sexual and racial identity. . . . Each of these essays feels more like a prayer, a kind you'd hope to hear in church: a calm and quiet attempt to speak to the complex fears and thoughts that trouble all our hearts.\" -- Quinn Eli * News \u0026amp; Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Foreword: “Home” Is a Four-Letter Word \/ Sharon P. Holland ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Queering Black Studies\/ “Quaring” Queer Studies \/ E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson 1\u003cbr\u003e I. DISCIPLINARY TENSIONS: BLACK STUDIES\/QUEER STUDIES \u003cbr\u003e Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? \/ Cathy J. Cohen 21\u003cbr\u003e Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity \/ Roderick A. Ferguson 52\u003cbr\u003e Straight Black Studies: On African American Studies, James Baldwin, and Black Queer Studies \/ Dwight A. McBride 68\u003cbr\u003e Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora \/ Rinaldo Walcott 90\u003cbr\u003e The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Evidence, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge \/ Phillip Brian Harper 106\u003cbr\u003e “Quare” Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother \/ E. Patrick Johnson 124\u003cbr\u003e II. REPRESENTING THE “RACE”: BLACKNESS, QUEERS, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY \u003cbr\u003e Beyond the Closet as Raceless Paradigm \/ Marlon B. Ross 161\u003cbr\u003e Privilege \/ Devon W. Carbado 190\u003cbr\u003e “Joining the Lesbians”: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility \/ Kara Keeling 213\u003cbr\u003e Why Are Gay Ghettoes White? \/ Charles I. Nero 228\u003cbr\u003e III. HOW TO TEACH THE UNSPEAKABLE: RACE, QUEER STUDIES, AND PEDAGOGY \u003cbr\u003e Embracing the Teachable Moment: The Black Gay Body in the Classroom as Embodied Text \/ Bryant Keith Alexander 249\u003cbr\u003e Are We Family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness \/ Keith Clark 266\u003cbr\u003e On Being a Witness: Passion, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of James Baldwin \/ Maurice O. Wallace 276\u003cbr\u003e IV. BLACK QUEER FICTION: WHO IS “READING” US? \u003cbr\u003e But Some of Us Are Brave Lesbians: The Absence of Black Lesbian Fiction \/ Jewelle Gomez 289\u003cbr\u003e James Baldwin‘s \u003ci\u003eGiovanni‘s Room\u003c\/i\u003e: Expatriation, “Racial Drag,” and Homosexual Panic \/ Mae G. Henderson 298\u003cbr\u003e Robert O‘Hara‘s\u003ci\u003e Insurrection\u003c\/i\u003e: “Que(e)rying History” \/ Faedra Chatard Carpenter 323\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 349\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 371\u003cbr\u003e Index 375","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534990639447,"sku":"9780822336297","price":1218.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822336297.jpg?v=1755858510","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-queer-studies-9780822336297","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}