Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
E. Patrick Johnson
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.
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| ISBN | 9781469641102 |
| Genre | LGBT Studies/Social Sciences; Autobiography/Biography; Black Interest |
| Publication Date | 2018 |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press |
| Notes | Finalist, 2018 Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Studies
A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction, American Library Association Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Round Table Finalist, Judy Grahn Award, Publishing Triangle |
| LoC Classification | HQ75.6.U52 .S684 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Subject | African American Lesbians; African American Lesbians – Biography. – Southern States; African American Lesbians – History – Southern States; Southern States |
| BookID | 1267 |
