In There's a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a
sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what
he calls "Black gay habits of mind." In conversational and lyrical
language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical
Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He
traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research
and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, London, and
Paris to Toronto, Miami, and Trinidad and Tobago. In these
locations and archives, Allen traces the genealogies of Black gay
politics and cultures in the visual art, poetry, film, Black
feminist theory, historiography, and activism of thinkers and
artists such as Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Essex Hemphill,
Colin Robinson, Marlon Riggs, Pat Parker, and Joseph Beam.
Throughout, Allen renarrates Black queer history while cultivating
a Black gay method of thinking and writing. In so doing, he speaks
to the urgent contemporary struggles for social justice while
calling on Black studies to pursue scholarship, art, and policy
derived from the lived experience and fantasies of Black people
throughout the world.
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