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Queer in Black and White : Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2009 [©2009.]

1 online resource (153 pages)

Englisch

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Print version: Queer in Black and White : Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture

978-0-253-00299-0

978-0-253-35350-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

HU 1728      Ähnliche Literatur

PS153.N5

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LOC-SH: African Americans -- Race identity ; Race relations in motion pictures ; Homosexuality in literature ; Homosexuality in motion pictures ; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism ; African Americans -- Intellectual life ; Homosexuality in music ; Race relations in literature

African Americans ; Intellectual life ; American fiction ; African American authors ; History and criticism ; Homosexuality in literature ; Homosexuality in motion pictures ; Homosexuality in music ; Race relations in literature ; Race relations in motion pictures ; Electronic books

This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these "texts," Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity. She shows that representations of interracial desire do not follow the logic of racial exclusion. Instead they are metaphorical and anti-biological. Rather than diluting race, interracial desire makes race visible. By invoking the interracial, black gay and lesbian artists can remake our conception of blackness.

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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Ironic Soil": Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalism -- 2 "No Tender Mercy": Same-Sex Desire,Interraciality, and the Black Nation -- 3 (Not) Loving Her: A Locus of Contradictions -- 4 "She's a B*(u)tch": Centering Blackness inThe Watermelon Woman -- Epilogue: Reading Robert Reid-Pharr -- Notes -- Index.