Queer in Black and White
Title | Queer in Black and White PDF eBook |
Author | Stefanie K. Dunning |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2009-05-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0253221099 |
This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these "texts," Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity. She shows that representations of interracial desire do not follow the logic of racial exclusion. Instead they are metaphorical and anti-biological. Rather than diluting race, interracial desire makes race visible. By invoking the interracial, black gay and lesbian artists can remake our conception of blackness.
Not Straight, Not White
Title | Not Straight, Not White PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Mumford |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1469626853 |
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times—from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism—helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise of black gay identities in historical context, Kevin Mumford explores how activists, performers, and writers rebutted negative stereotypes and refused sexual objectification. Examining the lives of both famous and little-known black gay activists—from James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin to Joseph Beam and Brother Grant-Michael Fitzgerald—Mumford analyzes the ways in which movements for social change both inspired and marginalized black gay men. Drawing on an extensive archive of newspapers, pornography, and film, as well as government documents, organizational records, and personal papers, Mumford sheds new light on four volatile decades in the protracted battle of black gay men for affirmation and empowerment in the face of pervasive racism and homophobia.
Queer Love in Color
Title | Queer Love in Color PDF eBook |
Author | Jamal Jordan |
Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1984857657 |
A photographic celebration of the love and relationships of queer people of color by a former New York Times multimedia journalist “Thank you, Jamal Jordan, for showing the world what true love looks like.”—Billy Porter Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum of gender, race, and age.
Keeping It Unreal
Title | Keeping It Unreal PDF eBook |
Author | Darieck Scott |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2022-01-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1479840130 |
Introduction: Fantastic Bullets -- I Am Nubia: Superhero Comics and the Paradigm of the Fantasy-Act -- Can the Black Superhero Be? -- Erotic Fantasy-Acts: The Art of Desire -- Conclusion: On Becoming Fantastical.
Queer Pollen
Title | Queer Pollen PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Gerstner |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0252077873 |
This book discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists and how they turned to various media to work through their experiences living as queer black men.
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Title | Black. Queer. Southern. Women. PDF eBook |
Author | E. Patrick Johnson |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2018-10-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1469641119 |
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Using methods of oral history and performance ethnography, E. Patrick Johnson's work vividly enriches the historical record of racialized sexual minorities in the South and brings to light the realities of the region's thriving black lesbian communities. At once transcendent and grounded in place and time, these narratives raise important questions about queer identity formation, community building, and power relations as they are negotiated within the context of southern history. Johnson uses individual stories to reveal the embedded political and cultural ideologies of the self but also of the listener and society as a whole. These breathtakingly rich life histories show afresh how black female sexuality is and always has been an integral part of the patchwork quilt that is southern culture.
Black Queer Hoe
Title | Black Queer Hoe PDF eBook |
Author | Britteney Black Rose Kapri |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2018-10-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1608469530 |
From an award-winning and “stunningly talented” writer, reflections on the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation (Samantha Irby, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life). Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this refreshing, unapologetic debut, award-winning performance poet and playwright Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power in a world that refuses black queer women permission to define their own lives and boundaries. Black Queer Hoe is a powerful intervention into important and ongoing conversations. “In a debut crackling with energy, honesty, and wit, Kapri moves to reclaim elements of language surrounding women’s sexuality, especially that of black women . . . Kapri assails the ways social norms are routinely used to blame girls and women for the moral failures of boys and men. Embracing the intimacy of a confessional and the sting of a viral tweet, Kapri unabashedly celebrates the various facets of her self and refuses to serve as anyone’s martyr.” —Publishers Weekly