Snapping Beans
eBook - ePub

Snapping Beans

Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Snapping Beans

Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South

About this book

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.

Snapping Beans offers a collective narrative of Southern queer lesbian women and gender-nonconforming persons. Throughout the text, the American South acts as both a region and a main character, one that can shame and condemn but also serve as a site of reconciliation. Blending autoethnography and oral histories, Jayme N. Canty explores how both geographic location and social spaces, such as the Church, intersect with categories such as race, gender, and sexuality to shape and mark identity. Just as the intergenerational practice of snapping beans provides an opportunity to slow down, Canty enables readers to make space and to hear a new Southern narrative. Filled with both hurt and healing, Snapping Beans chronicles a multivocal journey of coming out, ultimately revealing a South where Black queer lesbians not only live but also, more importantly, thrive.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Description and List of Interlocutor Pseudonyms
  7. Preface: ā€œOh Yeah, You Southernā€: Reflections from a Southern Black Queer Lesbian Woman
  8. Introduction: ā€œIt Is a Part of Southern Lifeā€: Snapping Beans with SBQLWP Uncovers a Racialized Sexual Queer Geography
  9. ā€œI Was Silent, But My Brain Was Loudā€: The Silent South
  10. ā€œThe Church Is Not the Building; Itā€™s the Peopleā€: The Shameful and Condemning South
  11. ā€œThe World Is Set Up for Straight Folksā€: The Judgmental South and the Southern Black Personality
  12. ā€œI Am Standing in My Truthā€: The Authentic and Reconciled South
  13. The Black Queer Lesbian South
  14. Epilogue: We Continue to Carry On
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover