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A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies
challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to
normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The
essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual
identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the
sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social
life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday
negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black
gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and
beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black
sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and
subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces,
cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the
energies at the nexus of sexuality and race. Contributors: Marlon
M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz,
Adrienne D. Davis, Pierre Dominguez, David B. Green Jr., Jillian
Hernandez, Cheryl D. Hicks, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune,
Mireille Miller-Young, Angelique Nixon, Shana L. Redmond, Matt
Richardson, L. H. Stallings, Anya M. Wallace, and Erica Lorraine
Williams
A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies
challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to
normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The
essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual
identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the
sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social
life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday
negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black
gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and
beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black
sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and
subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces,
cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the
energies at the nexus of sexuality and race. Contributors: Marlon
M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz,
Adrienne D. Davis, Pierre Dominguez, David B. Green Jr., Jillian
Hernandez, Cheryl D. Hicks, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune,
Mireille Miller-Young, Angelique Nixon, Shana L. Redmond, Matt
Richardson, L. H. Stallings, Anya M. Wallace, and Erica Lorraine
Williams
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban
phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in
the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps
uniquely explores the ways in which Black LGBT people in Detroit
use performance and other cultural practices-such as alternative
identity, kinship, and community formations-to contend with or
alter the conditions in which they live. Butch Queens Up in Pumps
is as much an examination of Black queer cultural formations as it
is an ethnographic account of Ballroom culture in Detroit. Marlon
M. Bailey's rare perspective as both participant and observer in
the Ballroom scene makes for compelling reading and lends his
analysis an uncommon immediacy and authenticity, producing a
remarkable performance ethnography that delves deeply into this
subcultural phenomenon. The book will appeal to scholars and
students across a wide range of disciplines, including African
American studies, gender and sexuality studies, performance
studies, dance, and anthropology, and to anyone interested in the
politics, prevention, and activism surrounding HIV/AIDS.
Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the
interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the
Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars
delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at
close range the encounters of different forms of blackness
converging on the global scene. Contributors examine the many ways
blacks have been misrecognized in a variety of contexts. They also
explore how, as a direct result of transnational networking and
processes of friction, blacks have deployed diasporic consciousness
to interpellate forms of white supremacy that have naturalized
black inferiority, inhumanity, and abjection. Various essays
document the antagonism between African Americans and Africans
regarding heritage tourism in West Africa, discuss the interaction
between different forms of blackness in Toronto's Caribana
Festival, probe the impact of the Civil Rights movement in America
on diasporic communities elsewhere, and assess the anxiety about
HIV and AIDS within black communities. The volume demonstrates that
diaspora is a floating revelation of black consciousness that
brings together, in a single space, dimensions of difference in
forms and content of representations, practices, and meanings of
blackness. Diaspora imposes considerable flexibility in what would
otherwise be place-bound fixities. Contributors are Marlon M.
Bailey, Jung Ran Forte, Reena N. Goldthree, Percy C. Hintzen,
Lyndon Phillip, Andrea Queeley, Jean Muteba Rahier, Stephane
Robolin, and Felipe Smith.
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban
phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in
the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps
uniquely explores the ways in which Black LGBT people in Detroit
use performance and other cultural practices—such as alternative
identity, kinship, and community formations—to contend with or
alter the conditions in which they live. Butch Queens Up in Pumps
is as much an examination of Black queer cultural formations as it
is an ethnographic account of Ballroom culture in Detroit. Marlon
M. Bailey’s rare perspective as both participant and observer in
the Ballroom scene makes for compelling reading and lends his
analysis an uncommon immediacy and authenticity, producing a
remarkable performance ethnography that delves deeply into this
subcultural phenomenon. The book will appeal to scholars and
students across a wide range of disciplines, including African
American studies, gender and sexuality studies, performance
studies, dance, and anthropology, and to anyone interested in the
politics, prevention, and activism surrounding HIV/AIDS.
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