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• Outside the Xy

  Queer, Black and Brown Masculinity

  boihood, bklyn

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  Outside the XY: Queer, Black and Brown Masculinity is an anthology of more than 50 stories, memories, poems, ideas, essays and letters--all examining what it looks like, feels like, and is like to inhabit masculinity outside of cisgendered manhood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Walking the Tightrope

  Poetry and Prose by LGBTQ Writers From Africa

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  Among the first of its kind, this book is composed of works by writers from different parts of Sun-Saharan Africa, including first and second generation Africans in the diaspora. With this anthology, the editors seek to challenge and engage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Their Own Receive Them Not

  African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches

  Griffin, Horace L., 1961- ,

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  In Their Own Receive Them Not, Griffin provides a historical overview and critical analysis of the black church and its current engagement with lesbian and gay Christians, and shares ways in which black churches can learn to reach out and confront…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

  Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

  Hartman, Saidiya V.

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  Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination

  Brim, Matt

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  The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim's James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Queer Work of Ratchet

  Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (anti)politics of Respectability

  Lane, Nikki,

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  The book introduces the concept of "ratchet/boojie cultural politics" which draws from a rich body of Black intellectual traditions which interrogate the debates concerning what is and is not "acceptable" Black (middle-class) behavior. Placing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha

  Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

  Holcomb, Gary Edward

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  The memoir is essential to understanding McKay's first three novels. Relying on queer theory and related language-oriented approaches, moreover, this study emphasizes that the key to McKay's queer black Marxism lies as much in confronting his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unapologetic

  a Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Our Movement

  Carruthers, Charlene

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  Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black/gay

  the Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s

  Dickel, Simon

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  This book explores key texts of the black gay culture of the 1980s and '90s. Starting with an analysis of the political discourse in anthologies such as In the Life and Brother to Brother, it identifies the references to the Harlem Renaissance and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queering Black Atlantic Religions

  Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

  Strongman, Roberto, 1971-

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  In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Semi Queer

  Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers

  Balay, Anne,

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  Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Evidence of Being

  the Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

  Bost, Darius,

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  Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Queer Limit of Black Memory

  Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

  Richardson, Matt, 1969-

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  The Queer Limit of Black Memory brings together several theorists whose work is vital within Black studies -- Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, Hortense Spillers, Frantz Fanon, and Orlando Patterson -- in service of queer readings of Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination

  Young, Thelathia Nikki,

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  "This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives, and creative explorations of black queer people seriously, Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queer Love in Color

  Jordan, Jamal, 1990-

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  Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queer Returns

  Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies

  Walcott, Rinaldo, 1965-

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  Queer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora, and queer through the lens of Black expression, identity, and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts identity and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queering the Color Line

  Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture

  Somerville, Siobhan B.

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  Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Callaloo & Other Lesbian Love Tales

  Barnett, LaShonda K., 1975-

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  A collection of stories presenting snapshots of lesbian lives. Whether the women involved are cooking food, going to see an art show or spending an afternoon together, the author's youthful and exuberant first person narratives reflect on cultures,…Read moreRead more of this annotation