Black Genders and Sexualities [Paperback]

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.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

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