Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
- Creator / Contributor:
- Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
- Date Created / Date Issued:
- 2012
- Rights - Use and Reproduction:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Type:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Topic:
- African Americans -- Race identity| African Americans -- Sexual behavior| United States -- Race relations -- History| Queer theory| Identity (Psychology)| United States| History
- Source Collection Identifier:
- LC: 2011053089| ISBN: 9780822352242| ISBN: 0822352249| ISBN: 9780822352419| ISBN: 0822352419| OCLC: (OCoLC)769871244
- Source Collection Name:
- Black Queer Studies Collection
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Against the Closet: Racial Identity and the Bodily Basis/Biases of Sexual Identity | 1. "The Strangest Freaks of Despotism": Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African American Slave Narratives | 2. Iconographies of Gang Rape: Or, Black Enfranchisement, White Disavowal, and the (Homo)erotics of Lynching | 3. Desire and Treason in Mid-Twentieth-Century Political Protest Fiction | Recovering the Little Black Girl: Incest and Black American Textuality | Conclusion. In Memoriam: Michael Jackson, 1958-2009.