Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture
Stefanie K. Dunning
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Description for Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture
Paperback. Analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. This book explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 196.
This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these "texts," Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity. She shows that representations of interracial desire do not follow the logic of racial exclusion. Instead they are metaphorical and anti-biological. Rather than diluting race, interracial desire makes race visible. By invoking the interracial, black gay and lesbian artists can remake our conception of blackness.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221094
SKU
V9780253221094
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About Stefanie K. Dunning
Stefanie K. Dunning is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio.
Reviews for Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture
"Dunning uses the trope of interraciality... to demonstrate how [it] actually reifies rather than obfuscates the black queer's 'blackness'." —E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University "Dunning's text is beneficial to any scholar whose research explores race, gender, and sexuality." —MELUS, Vol. 35, No. 3, Fall 2010 "The small paperback, light on jargon and devoid of pretension, is eminently readable, permitting Dunning's ... Read more