| Description |
xiii, 377 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 Carpenter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-370) and index. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Study and teaching.
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Gay and lesbian studies -- United States.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Gay people -- United States -- Identity.
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Lesbians -- United States -- Identity.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, E. Patrick, 1967-
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Henderson, Mae.
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| ISBN |
0822336294 |
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0822336189 (pbk.) |
| OCLC # |
59403452 |
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