Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

Charles I. Nero, Bryant Keith Alexander, Keith Clark, Maurice O. Wallace, Jewelle Gomez, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Cathy J. Cohen, Roderick A. Ferguson, Dwight A. McBride, Rinaldo Walcott, Phillip Brian Harper, Marlon B. Ross, Devon W. Carbado, Kara Keeling

Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
4.33 · 6 ratings · 400 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2005
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology by Charles I. Nero, Bryant Keith Alexander, Keith Clark, Maurice O. Wallace, Jewelle Gomez, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Cathy J. Cohen, Roderick A. Ferguson, Dwight A. McBride, Rinaldo Walcott, Phillip Brian Harper, Marlon B. Ross, Devon W. Carbado, Kara Keeling
While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States. Bringing together essays by established and emergent scholars, this collection assesses the strengths and weaknesses of prior work on race and sexuality and highlights the theoretical and political issues at stake in the nascent field of black queer studies. Including work by scholars based in English, film studies, black studies, sociology, history, political science, legal studies, cultural studies, and performance studies, the volume showcases the broadly interdisciplinary nature of the black queer studies project.The contributors consider representations of the black queer body, black queer literature, the pedagogical implications of black queer studies, and the ways that gender and sexuality have been glossed over in black studies and race and class marginalized in queer studies. Whether exploring the closet as a racially loaded metaphor, arguing for the inclusion of diaspora studies in black queer studies, considering how the black lesbian voice that was so expressive in the 1970s and 1980s is all but inaudible today, or investigating how the social sciences have solidified racial and sexual exclusionary practices, these insightful essays signal an important and necessary expansion of queer studies.

Contributors. Bryant K. Alexander, Devon Carbado, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Keith Clark, Cathy Cohen, Roderick A. Ferguson, Jewelle Gomez, Phillip Brian Harper, Mae G. Henderson, Sharon P. Holland, E. Patrick Johnson, Kara Keeling, Dwight A. McBride, Charles I. Nero, Marlon B. Ross, Rinaldo Walcott, Maurice O. Wallace
Amazon Other stores
As an Amazon Associate thebooknaut.com earns from qualifying purchases

Tagged as:

    romance tags

    crime tags

    literary-fiction tags

    historical-fiction tags

    fantasy tags

    sci-fi tags

    action-adventure tags

    thriller tags

    horror tags

    Collections/Custom tags

    Report duplicate books, missing or wrong information

    Reviews

    Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology by Charles I. Nero, Bryant Keith Alexander, Keith Clark, Maurice O. Wallace, Jewelle Gomez, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Cathy J. Cohen, Roderick A. Ferguson, Dwight A. McBride, Rinaldo Walcott, Phillip Brian Harper, Marlon B. Ross, Devon W. Carbado, Kara Keeling

    Report duplicate books, missing or wrong information