Black. Queer. Southern. Women. (eBook)

An Oral History

E. Patrick Johnson (Autor)

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2018
592 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4111-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Using methods of oral history and performance ethnography, E. Patrick Johnson's work vividly enriches the historical record of racialized sexual minorities in the South and brings to light the realities of the region's thriving black lesbian communities. At once transcendent and grounded in place and time, these narratives raise important questions about queer identity formation, community building, and power relations as they are negotiated within the context of southern history. Johnson uses individual stories to reveal the embedded political and cultural ideologies of the self but also of the listener and society as a whole. These breathtakingly rich life histories show afresh how black female sexuality is and always has been an integral part of the patchwork quilt that is southern culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: black lesbian activism in the South • black lesbian activists in Atlanta • black lesbian artists in the South • black lesbian clubs • black lesbian dominates • black lesbian femmes • black lesbian gender roles • black lesbian leaders • black lesbian marriages • black lesbian mothers in the South • black lesbian musicians • black lesbian poets • black lesbian relationships in the South • black lesbians in the rural South • Black lesbians in the South • black lesbian writers • Charis Bookstore in Atlanta • drug addiction among black lesbians • feminist oral histories • Freeman’s Town, Mississippi • gender nonconformity in the South • incarceration and black lesbians • National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging • ole miss • oral histories of black southerners • Parchman Prison • Queer southerners • same-sex desire in the South • sexual trauma among lesbians • Southerners on New Ground • Spanish Harlem • spirituality of black southern lesbians
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4111-9 / 1469641119
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4111-9 / 9781469641119