基本説明
The work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural experiences as shaped by gender and sex.
Full Description
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural experiences as shaped by gender and sex.
Contents
Trapped in the Epistemological Closet: Black Sexuality and the 'Ghettocentric' Imagination; C.R.Snorton Craig Brewer and Kara Walker: Sexing the Difference and Rebuilding the South; S.C.Drake Race, Sexuality and the Media: The Demotion of Portland, Oregon's Black Chief of Police; E.Johnson & R.Hunte Love, Ambition, and 'Invisible Footnotes' in the Life and Writing of Pauli Murray; D.M.Drury Thugs, Black Divas, and Gendered Aspirations; A.Cox Grupo OREMI: Black Lesbians and the Struggle for Safe Social Space in Havana; T.L.Saunders Sexual Tourism and Social Panics: Research and Intervention in Rio de Janeiro; A.P.Da Silva & T.G.Blanchette Translating (Black) Queerness: Unpacking the Conceptual Linkages Between Racialized Masculinities, Consensual Sex, and the Practice of Torture; G.M.Foster 'So High You Can't Get Over it, So Low You Can't Get Under It': Carceral Spatiality and Black Masculinities in the United States and South Africa; R.Shabazz Can you be BLACK and Work Here?: Social Justice Activist Organizing and Black Aurality; A.T.Crawley Feminizing Lesbians, Degendering Transgender Men: A Model for Building Lesbian Feminist Thinkers and Leaders in Africa?; Z.Matebeni Black Female Sexual Identity: The Self Defined; A.Marshall & D.M.Maynard Ain't I a Man: Gender Meanings among Black Men who have Sex with Men; R.McCoy Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit; M.M.Bailey In the Heat: Towards a Phenomenology of Black Men Loving/Sexing Each Other; H.S.Williams (Herukhuti) For 'the Children.' Dancing the Beloved Community; J.S.Allen
