{"product_id":"feels-right-9781478016076","title":"Feels Right","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeels Right\u003c\/i\u003e Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents how black queer women respond to these conditions: how they destroy DJ booths, argue with one another, dance slowly, and stop partying altogether. Their practices complicate our expectations that life at night, on the queer dance floor, or among black queer community simply feels good. Adeyemi’s framework of “feeling right” instead offers a closer, kinesthetic look at how black queer women adroitly manage feeling itself as a complex right they should be afforded in cities that violently structure their movements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Adeyemi’s rich ethnographic observations on Black queer women’s parties in Chicago demonstrate why the dance floor is much more than just a utopian promise of happiness within a hostile socio-political environment. . . . Through dancing and choreography, queerness is not only performed but also learned and experienced by people who may not have encountered it before.” -- Yener Bayramoglu * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is innovative about Adeyemi’s text ... is that she carves out a scholarly field that reflects her interest in queer nightlife in the most expansive definition of the phrase. ... \u003ci\u003eFeels Right \u003c\/i\u003eis a political project that aims to drive many Black queer women to return to nightlife even if their pleasure is contested on the dance floor and in the city.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e -- Marietta Kosma * European Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Slo ‘Mo and the Pace of Black Queer Life  39\u003cbr\u003e 2. Where’s the Joy in Accountability? Black Joy at Its Limits  62\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ordinary E N E R G Y  96\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: An Oral History of the Future of Burnout  120\u003cbr\u003e Notes  143\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  159\u003cbr\u003e Index  171","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409000931671,"sku":"9781478016076","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478016076.jpg?v=1730505042","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feels-right-9781478016076","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}