ISBN:
9781137077950
,
1137077956
,
9781403983992
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 271 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Series Statement:
Critical black studies series
Parallel Title:
Print version Black Genders and Sexualities
DDC:
305.308996
Keywords:
Gender identity
;
Sex role
;
Blacks
;
Race identity
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9781403983992, 2012
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Black Genders and Sexualities; Contents; Introduction; References; Chapter 1: Trapped in the Epistemological Closet: Black Sexuality and the "Ghettocentric" Imagination; Reading Closet Drama; Structuring the Closet (Spoiler Alert!); The Double Lives of R. Kelly; "A Ghetto Love Is the Law That We Live By"; Trapped in the Epistemological Closet; Acknowledgments; Notes; Chapter 2: Craig Brewer and Kara Walker: Sexing the Difference and Rebuilding the South; Developing a Blues Sensibility; Policing the Black Woman's Body; "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance"
Description / Table of Contents:
A Requiem for the Black Male Figure?Works Cited; Notes; Chapter 3: Race, Sexuality, and the Media: The Demotion of Portland's Black Chief of Police; Introduction; Setting the Stage; The Politics of Black Sexuality, theNew Racism, and the Black Press; Methods; The Oregonian: Foxworth the Freak; The Black Press; Conclusion; References; Notes; Chapter 4:Love, Ambition, and"Invisible Footnotes"in the Life and Writingof Pauli Murray; Notes; Chapter 5:Thugs, Black Divas, andGendered Aspirations; The Fresh Start Shelter; Discourses of Young Black Womanhood; Divas; The Replicating Researcher; Amber
Description / Table of Contents:
(Re)Doing Gender in the Context of Work and FamilyNotes; Chapter 6 Grupo OREMI: Black Lesbians and the Struggle for Safe Social Space in Havana; Notes on Sexuality in Post- 1959 Cuba; Contextualizing Race and Gender in a Cuban Context; Living as a Black Woman in Cuba's Lesbian Scene; Mujeres Unidas/Women United:El Proyecto Grupo OREMI; Challenging Machismo, Homophobia,and Lesbian Isolation; Conclusion; References; Notes; Chapter 7: Sexual Tourism and Social Panics: Research and Intervention in Rio de Janeiro; References; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8: Translating (Black) Queerness: Unpacking the Conceptual Linkages between Racialized Masculinities, Consensual Sex, and the Practice of TortureRing of Fire: Audience-as-Market and the Problem of Difference; The "Closet" Metaphor as a Limiting Paradigm; Unearthing the "Truth" about Griffith's(Black Male) Sexuality; Is Simulated "Gay Sex" "Gay"? Is it Even"Sex"? The Risk of Translation; Notes; Chapter 9: "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
Description / Table of Contents:
Robert Taylor Homes, Apex of Carceral Mise- en- ScèneMining Compounds: Prisonizing Black Labor; Space and the Subject: Carceral Circularityand Performances of Prison Masculinity; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Notes; Chapter 10: Can You Be BLACK and Work Here?: Social Justice Activist Organizing and BLACK Aurality; Acknowledgement; Resolution; Pursuance; Psalm; Works Cited; Notes; Chapter 11: Feminizing Lesbians, De-Gendering Transgender Men: A Model for Building Lesbian Feminist Thinkers and Leaders in Africa?; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Lesbian Feminism in the AfricanContext: A Model for Revision?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1057/9781137077950
URN:
10.1057/9781137077950
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