Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

Creator / Contributor:

E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson

Date Created / Date Issued:

2005

Rights - Use and Reproduction:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Type:

Book

Language:

English

Topic:

African Americans -- Study and teaching| Gay and lesbian studies -- United States| African Americans -- Race identity| Gays -- United States -- Identity| Lesbians -- United States -- Identity

Source Collection Identifier:

LC: 2005009917| ISBN: 0822336294| ISBN: 0822336189 (pbk.)| OCLC: (OCoLC)59403452

Source Collection Name:

Black Queer Studies Collection

Table of Contents:

Foreword: “Home Is a four Letter Word / Sharon P. Holland / Introduction: Queering Black Studies/”Quaring” Queer Studies / E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson | 1. Disciplinary Tensions: Black Studies/Queer Studies -- Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? / Cathy J. Cohen | Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity / Roderick A. Ferguson | Straight Black Studies: On African American studies, James Baldwin, and Black Queer Studies / Dwight A. McBride | Outside in Black studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora / Rinaldo Walcott | The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Experience, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge / Phillip Brian Harper | "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother / E. Patrick Johnson | 2. Representing the “Race”: Blackness, Queers, and the Politics of Visibility -- Beyond the Closet as Raceless Paradigm / Marlon B. Ross | Privilege / Devon W. Carbado | "Joining the Lesbians": Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility / Kara Keeling | Why are Gay Ghettoes White? / Charles I. Nero | 3 How to Teach the Unspeakable: Race, Queer Studies, and Pedagogy -- Embracing the Teachable Moment: The Black Gay Body in the Classroom as Embodied Text / Bryant Keith Alexander | Are We family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness / Keith Clark | On Being a Witness: Passion, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of James Baldwin / Maurice O. Wallace | 4. Black Queer Fiction: Who is “Reading” Us? -- But Some of Us Are Brave Lesbians: The Absence of Black Lesbian Fiction / Jewelle Gomez | James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room: Expatriation, "Racial Drag," and Homosexual Panic / Mae G. Henderson | Robert O'Hara's Insurrection: "Que(e)rying History" / Faedra Chatard Carpente