No Tea, No Shade

New Writings in Black Queer Studies

E. Patrick Johnson

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780822362425, 9780822362227
• eBook ISBN: 9780822373711
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous and important field of study. Topics include "raw" sex, pornography, the carceral state, gentrification, gender nonconformity, social media, the relationship between black feminist studies and black trans studies, the black queer experience throughout the black diaspora, and queer music, film, dance, and theater. The contributors both disprove naysayers who believed black queer studies to be a passing trend and respond to critiques of the field's early U.S. bias. Deferring to the past while pointing to the future, No Tea, No Shade pushes black queer studies in new and exciting directions.

Contributors. Jafari S. Allen, Marlon M. Bailey, Zachary Shane Kalish Blair, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Cathy J. Cohen, Jennifer DeClue, Treva Ellison, Lyndon K. Gill, Kai M. Green, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kwame Holmes, E. Patrick Johnson, Shaka McGlotten, Amber Jamilla Musser, Alison Reed, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Tanya Saunders, C. Riley Snorton, Kaila Story, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Julia Roxanne Wallace, Kortney Ziegler

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow ...
• Chapter 2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You’re Dead: Spectacular Absence and Post-Racialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory
• Chapter 3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans* Analytic
• Chapter 4. Gender Trouble in Triton
• Chapter 5. Reggaetón’s Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography
• Chapter 6. I Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater
• Chapter 7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographies of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant
• Chapter 8. Toward A Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil
• Chapter 9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and the Heteroperpetually Ever After
• Chapter 10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability
• Chapter 11. Let’s Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain
• Chapter 12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex
• Chapter 13. Black Data
• Chapter 14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism
• Chapter 15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot
• Chapter 16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness
• Chapter 17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black
• Chapter 18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness
• Chapter 19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index