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1. Freshwater

Creator / Contributor:
Akwaeke Emezi
Date Created / Date Issued:
2018
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her alternate selves: Asụghara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves, now protective, now hedonistic, move into control, Ada's life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated from the perspective of the various selves within Ada, and based in the author's realities, Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity and mental health, plunging the reader into the mystery of being and self. Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
Women -- Nigeria, Identity (Psychology), Nigeria, Fiction, and Autobiographical fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2017028925, ISBN: 9780802127358, ISBN: 0802127355, OCLC: (OCoLC)990286953, and ISBN: 9780802165565

2. 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

3. Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent

Creator / Contributor:
Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell
Date Created / Date Issued:
1996
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
An anthology of fiction by gay, black men. The works of 23 writers are represented, from Bill Wright's Your Mother from Cleveland, to A. Cinque Hicks' Spice.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
Gay men| American fiction -- African American authors| Gay men's writings, American| African American gays| African American men| African Americans| Fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 95048795| ISBN: 0380783053 (pbk.)| ISBN: 9780380783052 (pbk.)| OCLC: (OCoLC)33666519
Source Collection Name:
Black Queer Studies Collection

4. Under the Udala Trees

Creator / Contributor:
Chinelo Okparanta
Date Created / Date Issued:
2015
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
Nigeria and Fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
ISBN: 9780544003361, ISBN: 0544003365, OCLC: (OCoLC)907295804, OCLC: (OCoLC)ocn907295804, and ISBN: 9780544003446

5. Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

Creator / Contributor:
Darius Bost
Date Created / Date Issued:
2018
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest of moments, a new vision of community and hope managed to emerge. Darius Bost's account of the media, poetry, and performance of this time and place reveals a stunning confluence of activism and the arts. In Washington and New York during the 1980s and '90s, gay black men banded together, using creative expression as a tool to challenge the widespread views that marked them as unworthy of grief. They created art that enriched and reimagined their lives in the face of pain and neglect, while at the same time forging a path toward bold new modes of existence. At once a corrective to the predominantly white male accounts of the AIDS crisis and an openhearted depiction of the possibilities of black gay life, Evidence of Being above all insists on the primacy of community over loneliness, and hope over despair.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American gay men -- Washington (D.C.)| African American gay men -- New York (State) -- New York| American literature -- African American authors| Hemphill, Essex| Dixon, Melvin, 1950-1992
Source Collection Identifier:
ISBN: 0-226-58996-X| OCLC: (OCoLC)1076262129| ISBN: 0-226-58982-X| ISBN: 0-226-58979-X
Source Collection Name:
Black Queer Studies Collection

6. Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire

Creator / Contributor:
GerShun Avilez
Date Created / Date Issued:
2020
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces--specifically prisons and hospitals--and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American gays, Gays, Black, African American arts, Gay artists, Homophobia, Racism, and Queer theory
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2020023363, ISBN: 0252052250, ISBN: 9780252052255, OCLC: (OCoLC)1159605355, OCLC: (OCoLC)on1159605355, and ISBN: 9780252043376

7. In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology

Creator / Contributor:
Joseph Beam
Date Created / Date Issued:
1986
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
Gay men, American literature -- African American authors, African American gays, American literature -- 20th century, and Gay men's writings, American
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 86017283, ISBN: 0932870732 (pbk.), and OCLC: (OCoLC)ocm14003004

8. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Creator / Contributor:
Junauda Petrus
Date Created / Date Issued:
2019
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Audre is being sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Her grandmother Queenie tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots. Minneapolis. Mabel is trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels-- about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods. When Audre and her father come for dinner, Mabel falls hard for Audre and is determined to take care of her as she tries to navigate an American high school. But when test results reveal why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer, it's Audre who is caring for Mabel as they face a deeply uncertain future.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African Americans, Blacks -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad, Lesbians, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad, Young adult fiction, Young adult works, Fiction, Juvenile works, Lesbian fiction, and Novels
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2019003294, ISBN: 9780525555483, ISBN : 052555548X, OCLC: (OCoLC)1080276137, OCLC: (OCoLC)on1080276137, and ISBN: 9780525555506

9. Hurricane Child

Creator / Contributor:
Kacen Callender
Date Created / Date Issued:
2018
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American girls, Mothers and daughters, Missing persons, Fathers and daughters, Friendship, Hurricanes, Acting out (Psychology), African American lesbians, United States Virgin Islands, Fiction, Juvenile works, and Fantasy fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2017032545, ISBN: 9781338129304, ISBN: 1338129309, and OCLC: (OCoLC)1000585897

10. Speaking in Whispers: African-American Lesbian Erotica

Creator / Contributor:
Kathleen E. Morris
Date Created / Date Issued:
1996
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American lesbians, Lesbians' writings, American, Erotic stories, American, and Fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 96022395, ISBN: 1879427281 (alk. paper), ISBN: 9781879427280 (alk. paper), and OCLC: (OCoLC)34651711