Johnson / Henderson Black Queer Studies

A Critical Anthology
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8722-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, E. Patrick

Henderson, Mae G.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Holland, Sharon Patricia

Cohen, Cathy J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword: “Home” Is a Four-Letter Word / Sharon P. Holland ix

Introduction: Queering Black Studies/ “Quaring” Queer Studies / E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson 1

I. DISCIPLINARY TENSIONS: BLACK STUDIES/QUEER STUDIES

Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? / Cathy J. Cohen 21

Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity / Roderick A. Ferguson 52

Straight Black Studies: On African American Studies, James Baldwin, and Black Queer Studies / Dwight A. McBride 68

Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora / Rinaldo Walcott 90

The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Evidence, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge / Phillip Brian Harper 106

“Quare” Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother / E. Patrick Johnson 124

II. REPRESENTING THE “RACE”: BLACKNESS, QUEERS, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY

Beyond the Closet as Raceless Paradigm / Marlon B. Ross 161

Privilege / Devon W. Carbado 190

“Joining the Lesbians”: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility / Kara Keeling 213

Why Are Gay Ghettoes White? / Charles I. Nero 228

III. 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 249

Are We Family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness / Keith Clark 266

On Being a Witness: Passion, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of James Baldwin / Maurice O. Wallace 276

IV. BLACK QUEER FICTION: WHO IS “READING” US?

But Some of Us Are Brave Lesbians: The Absence of Black Lesbian Fiction / Jewelle Gomez 289

James Baldwin‘s Giovanni‘s Room: Expatriation, “Racial Drag,” and Homosexual Panic / Mae G. Henderson 298

Robert O‘Hara‘s Insurrection: “Que(e)rying History” / Faedra Chatard Carpenter 323

Bibliography 349

Contributors 371

Index 375

Über Autor(innen)

E. Patrick Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, also published by Duke University PressMae G. Henderson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the editor of Borders, Boundaries, and Frames: Essays in Cultural Criticism and Cultural Studies and coeditor of the five-volume Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals: An Annotated Index of Letters, 1817–1871.