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Book SynopsisNo Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of black queer studies scholars, activists, and community leaders who build on the foundational work of black queer studies, pushing the field in new and exciting directions.
Trade Review"
No Tea, No Shade’s largest strength is its intimate relationship with its historical and theoretical origins: the text conjures up legends long ignored by white-dominated queer studies, including the Harlem Renaissance performer Gladys Bentley, the drag king MilDred, and Black Lace, a 90s-era erotic magazine by and for African-American lesbians." -- Sarah Fonseca * Lambda Literary Review *
"This anthology captures a sense of daring potential. . . . Cogent and compelling." -- Jonathan Ward * European Journal of American Culture *
Table of ContentsForeword / Cathy J. Cohen xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson 1
1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow / Jafari S. Allen 27
2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead: Spectacular Absence and Postracialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory / Alison Reed 48
3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans*Analytic / Kai M. Green 65
4. Gender Trouble in
Triton / C. Riley Snorton 83
5. Reggaetón's Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 95
6. Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater / Lyndon K. Gill 113
7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographers of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 131
8. Toward a Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil / Tanya Saunders 147
9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and Heteroperpetually Ever After / La Marr Jurelle Bruce 166
10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability / Kortney Ziegler 196
11. Let's Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain / Jennifer Declue 216
12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex / Marlon M. Bailey 239
13. Black Data / Shaka McGlotten 262
14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism / Zachary Blair 287
15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot / Kwama Holmes 304
16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness / Treva Ellison 323
17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black / Amber Jamilla Musser 346
18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness / Kaila Adia Story 362
19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive / Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace 380
Bibliography 395
Contributors 409
Index 415
