Format:
1 Online-Ressource (299 Seiten)
ISBN:
9798890854452
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9781469673578
Series Statement:
Justice, power, and politics
Content:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Language -- Introduction -- Part I. Black Civil Rights Organizations and Sexual Exclusion in Early Cold War America -- 1. To Stand upon My Constitutional Rights: The NAACP Veterans' Affairs Bureau and World War II-Era Sexual Exclusion, 1945-1950 -- 2. These Attempts of Our Enemies to Blacken My Character: The National Urban League and the Political Uses of Homophobia, 1956-1957 -- Part II. The Sexual Deployments of White Supremacists -- 3. Freedom March Makes Queers Bed Fellows: Sexual Rumors and the 1965 Alabama Voting Rights Demonstrations -- 4. Nobody Has the Right to Turn Us into a Nation of Queers: Race and Homosexuality in White Supremacist Propaganda,1961-1975 -- Part III. Gay Political Visions and the Politics of Estrangement -- 5. Civil Rights and Moral Wrongs: The Politics of Gay Visibility in Atlanta, 1976-1989 -- 6. Saving the RACE: The SCLC/WOMEN and Ambivalent Approaches to HIV/AIDS, 1986-1993 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Content:
"Ambivalent Affinities charts the messy responses of Black liberals to the reverberations of sexual exclusion in American life and law. The private lives of African Americans - their intimate relationships, kinship networks, reproductive capacities, gendered behavior, and sexual acts - have long been vulnerable to white scrutiny and disparagement, given their centrality to the construction of racial difference and racial hierarchies. In looking at the intersecting courses of African American, liberal, and LGBT organizing efforts from the 1940s through the 1990s, Jones exposes the persistent conflict between immediate political goals and deep-seated desires to recuperate Black intimate life"--
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781469674254
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781469673561
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jones, Jennifer Dominique Ambivalent affinities Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023 ISBN 9781469673561
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781469674254
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Schwarze
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Bürgerrechtsbewegung
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Homosexuellenbewegung
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Geschichte 1945-1993
