While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identiti...
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Jul 31, 2011
Phil
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I only read one of the essays here, but it was a very interesting essay. It didn't contribute a tremendous amount of direct material to the thesis research I'm doing, but it added a different perspective, which will play a role in my thesis.
Nov 11, 2008
Celeste
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The essays in this book interrogate the meaning of "queer" as used in queer theory as it applies to the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people of color. While some of the authors identify with the term "queer," all of them reveal the ways in which queer theory has been the theory of white queers. The all-embracing, identity-dissolving thrust of queer theory elide the experiences of black queers for whom identity and identity politics have been a means
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Aug 13, 2008
Rickey
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Excellent. A total unpacking and foray into the still hybrid program of academia between Black or Africana Studies and Queer Studies. BQS is an anthology of several essays exploring simple questions that deserve answers: What does it mean to be both, simultaneously, black and non-heterosexual? In a dominantly white, heterosexist patriarchal society (aka America) how does the black queer body react to this world, express its sexuality when its considered deviant twice (for being black, for bein
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