Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

TITLE PAGE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT PAGE......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 9
FOREWORD: “HOME” IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD......Page 10
INTRODUCTION: QUEERING BLACK STUDIES/ “QUARING” QUEER STUDIES......Page 13
NOTES......Page 24
PART I: DISCIPLINARY TENSIONS: BLACK STUDIES/QUEER STUDIES......Page 26
PUNKS, BULLDAGGERS,AND WELFARE QUEENS: THE RADICALPOTENTIAL OF QUEER POLITICS?......Page 27
THE EMERGENCE OF QUEER POLITICS AND A NEW POLITICS OF TRANSFORMATION......Page 29
THE ROOT OF QUEER POLITICS: CHALLENGING HETERONORMATIVITY?......Page 33
HETEROSEXUALS ON THE (OUT)SIDE OF HETERONORMATIVITY......Page 39
CONCLUSION: DESTABILIZATION AND RADICAL COALITION WORK......Page 43
NOTES......Page 47
RACE-ING HOMONORMATIVITY: CITIZENSHIP, SOCIOLOGY, AND GAY IDENTITY......Page 50
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND THE GENEALOGY OF WHITE ETHNICITY......Page 52
THE NONNORMATIVE PROPERTIES OF RACIAL DIFFERENCE......Page 54
HOMONORMATIVITY AND THE COHERENCE OF CITIZENSHIP......Page 56
THE POLYMORPHOUS EXCLUSIONS OF HOMONORMATIVITY......Page 58
NOTES......Page 62
STRAIGHT BLACK STUDIES: ON AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES,: JAMES BALDWIN, AND BLACK QUEER STUDIES......Page 63
NOTES......Page 76
OUTSIDE IN BLACK STUDIES: READING FROM A QUEER PLACE IN THE DIASPORA......Page 79
NOTES......Page 89
THE EVIDENCE OF FELT INTUITION: MINORITY EXPERIENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE, AND CRITICAL SPECULATIVE KNOWLEDGE......Page 91
NOTES......Page 102
“QUARE” STUDIES, OR (ALMOST) EVERYTHING I KNOW: ABOUT QUEER STUDIES I LEARNED FROM MY GRANDMOTHER......Page 104
“RACE TROUBLE”: QUEER STUDIES OR THE STUDY OF WHITE QUEERS......Page 107
“YOUR BLUES AIN’T LIKE MINE”: THE INVALIDATION OF “EXPERIENCE”......Page 110
“QUARING” THE QUEER: TROPING THE TROPE......Page 113
SEEING THROUGH QUARE EYES: READING MARLON RIGGS’S BLACK IS… BLACK AIN’T......Page 118
BRINGIN’ IT ON “HOME”: QUARE STUDIES ON THE BACK PORCH......Page 122
CODA......Page 124
NOTES......Page 125
PART II: REPRESENTING THE “RACE”: BLACKNESS, QUEERS, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY......Page 131
BEYOND THE CLOSET AS RACELESS PARADIGM......Page 132
BEYOND THE BODY HOMOSEXUAL: AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF RACIAL CLAUSTROPHILIA......Page 134
BLACK FAGGOTRY BEYOND THE CLOSET NARRATIVE......Page 145
NOTES......Page 149
PRIVILEGE......Page 153
MALE PRIVILEGES......Page 155
HETEROSEXUAL PRIVILEGES......Page 160
CONCLUSION: RESISTING PRIVILEGES......Page 166
NOTES......Page 168
“JOINING THE LESBIANS”: CINEMATIC REGIMES OF BLACK LESBIAN VISIBILITY......Page 171
“NOW WE THINK AS WE FUCK”: 8 AN ANTIDOTE TO INNOCENT NOTIONS......Page 173
“WE CALLED THEM ‘WOMEN-LOVERS”’; OR, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE FORGOTTEN WHILE “THE WATERMELON WOMAN” IS “LIVING WITH PRIDE”15......Page 176
NOTES......Page 180
WHY ARE THE GAY GHETTOES WHITE?......Page 182
RACE AND GAY NEIGHBORHOOD FORMATION IN NEW ORLEANS......Page 184
CONTROLLING IMAGES OF BLACK GAY MEN......Page 187
RACE, RACISM, CLASS, AND HOUSING......Page 192
CONCLUSION......Page 194
NOTES......Page 195
PART III: HOW TO TEACH THE UNSPEAKABLE: RACE, QUEER STUDIES, AND PEDAGOGY......Page 197
EMBRACING THE TEACHABLE MOMENT: THE BLACK GAY BODY IN THE CLASSROOM AS EMBODIED TEXT......Page 198
A STUDENT PERFORMING DRAG IN THE CLASSROOM......Page 203
TO TEACH OR NOT TO TEACH?......Page 207
NOTES......Page 208
ARE WE FAMILY? PEDAGOGY AND THE RACE FOR QUEERNESS......Page 211
NOTES......Page 217
ON BEING A WITNESS: PASSION, PEDAGOGY, AND THE LEGACY OF JAMES BALDWIN......Page 219
NOTES......Page 226
PART IV: BLACK QUEER FICTION: WHO IS “READING” US?......Page 228
BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE LESBIANS: THE ABSENCE OF BLACK LESBIAN FICTION......Page 229
NOTES......Page 235
JAMES BALDWIN’S GIOVANNI’S ROOM: EXPATRIATION, “RACIAL DRAG,” AND HOMOSEXUAL PANIC......Page 236
ROBERT O’HARA’S INSURRECTION: “QUE(E)RYING” HISTORY......Page 253
NOTES......Page 267
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 271
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 297