No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, the coeditor of Blacktino Queer Performance and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, all also published by Duke University Press.
Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism
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Published:September 2016
Zachary Blair analyzes how digital social networking—a medium that has been regarded as a vehicle to build community and advance social justice —also functions as a vehicle for segregation and a means of reproducing homonormativity. In his examination of the responses to a rash of violent neighborhood muggings allegedly committed by black queer youth in Boystown, a “gayborhood” on Chicago’s North Side, Blair interrogates the discourses that emerged on a Facebook page created to increase communication and organization among neighborhood residents and the Chicago police. In doing so, Blair highlights how digital engagements through social networks and sociospatial practices “on...
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