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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. Major!

Creator / Contributor:
Annalise Ophelian
Date Created / Date Issued:
2016
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
MAJOR! is a documentary film exploring the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. At the heart of MAJOR! is a social justice framework that puts the subjects at the center of their story. MAJOR! was produced in collaboration with Miss Major, the film's participants, and a transPOC Community Advisory Board to ensure that these stories, which are so often marginalized, exoticized, or played for tragic drama, retain the agency and humanity of those who tell them. Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader and human rights activist. She is simply 'Mama' to many in her community. If history is held within us, embodied in our loves and losses, then Miss Major is a living library, a resource for generations to come to more fully understand the rich heritage of the Queer Rights movement that is so often whitewashed and rendered invisible. Miss Major's personal story and activism for transgender civil rights intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men's jails and prisons. In October 2015, Miss Major retired from her role as executive director of the San Francisco-based Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), advocating for trans women of color in and outside of prison. MAJOR! is more than just a biographical documentary: It's an investigation into critical issues of how the Prison Industrial Complex represents a wide-spread and systematic civil rights violation, as well as a historical portrait of diverse LGBT communities, told with love and humor, and personalized through the lens of a vibrant and charismatic woman. Through first-person narration and innovative visual story telling, MAJOR! seeks to create a living, breathing history of a community's struggle and resilience, as seen and experienced by those who lived it.
Type:
Film
Language:
English
Topic:
Griffin-Gracy, Major, 1940-, Transgender people -- United States, Documentary films, Biographical films, and Nonfiction films
Source Collection Identifier:
OCLC: (OCoLC)957676232

4. Moonlight

Creator / Contributor:
Barry Jenkins
Date Created / Date Issued:
2016
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Type:
Film
Language:
English
Topic:
African American men -- Florida -- Miami, African American boys -- Florida -- Miami, Metropolitan areas -- Florida -- Miami, Urban youth -- Florida -- Miami, Florida -- Miami, Drama, Film adaptations, Coming-of-age films, Feature films, and Fiction films
Source Collection Identifier:
PUBNUM: 100084E and OCLC: (OCoLC)975284744

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Paris is Burning

Creator / Contributor:
Jennie Livingston
Date Created / Date Issued:
1990
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
The unblinking behind-the-scenes story of the fashion-obsessed New Yorkers who created 'voguing' and drag balls, and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression of fierce personal pride.
Type:
Film
Language:
English
Topic:
African American gay men -- New York (State) -- New York, Gay culture -- New York (State) -- New York, Cross-dressers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs, Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs, Voguing (Dance) -- New York (State) -- New York, Drag balls -- New York (State) -- New York, New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs, and Documentary films
Source Collection Identifier:
ISBN: 0788861492, ISBN: 9780788861499, PUBNUM: 41451, and OCLC: (OCoLC)61193692

10. 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