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Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance

By

E. Patrick Johnson

E. Patrick Johnson

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Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

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Doi:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374657-001

Published:

June 2016

This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.

The introduction locates the editors’ shared political investments in the activist work of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, explaining that the book stages a dialogue between queer black and brown performance works and critical traditions. The editors explicate the project’s key terms—“blacktino,” “queer,” and “performance”—and provide an overview of the play scripts, essays, and interviews featured in the collection.

Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson

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Figures & Tables

Blacktino Queer Performance

Blacktino Queer Performance

Edited by

Duke University Press

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374657

Copyright:

This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.

ISBN electronic:

978-0-8223-7465-7

Publication date:

2016

References

Baldwin

,

James

.

The Amen Corner

.

New York

:

Laurel

,

1954

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Another Country

.

New York

:

Griot Editions

,

1994

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Blues for Mister Charlie

.

New York

:

Dial

,

1964

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

.

New York

:

Henry Holt

,

1985

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

The Fire Next Time

.

New York

:

Dial

,

1963

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Giovanni’s Room

.

New York

:

Dial

,

1956

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Going to Meet the Man

.

New York

:

Dell

,

1966

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

.

New York

:

Laurel

,

1985

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

If Beale Street Could Talk

.

New York

:

Laurel

,

1974

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Just above My Head

.

New York

:

Laurel

,

1979

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Nobody Knows My Name

.

New York

:

Dell

,

1963

.

Baldwin

,

James

.

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

.

New York

:

Laurel

,

1968

.

Baldwin

,

James

, and

Giovanni

Nikki

.

A Dialogue

.

New York

:

L. P. Lippincott

,

1973

.

Baraka

,

Imamu Amiri

[

Jones

LeRoi

]. “

CIVILRIGHTSPOEM” and “Black Art

.” In

The Selected Poetry of Imamu Baraka/LeRoi Jones

,

106

–

7

,

115

.

New York

:

William Morrow

,

1979

.

Butler

,

Judith

.

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.”

New York

:

Routledge

,

1993

.

Butler

,

Judith

.

Gender Trouble

.

New York

:

Routledge

,

1990

.

Cleaver

,

Eldridge

.

Soul on Ice

.

New York

:

Dell

,

1992

.

Conquergood

,

Dwight

. “

Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research

.”

TDR: The Drama Review

46

, no.

2

(Summer

2002

):

145

–

56

.

Du Bois

,

W. E. B.

The Souls of Black Folk

.

New York

:

Dover

,

1994

.

Fuss

,

Diana

.

Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference

.

New York

:

Routledge

,

1989

.

Giovanni

,

Nikki

. “

The True Import of Present Dialogue: Black vs. Negro

.” In

The Black Poets

, edited by

Randall

Dudley

,

318

–

19

.

New York

:

Bantam

,

1971

.

hooks

,

bell

. “

Loving Blackness as Political Resistance

.” In

Killing Rage: Ending Racism

.

New York

:

Henry Holt

,

1995

.

Hughes

,

Langston

. “

I Loved My Friend” and “Cafe: 3 A. M

.” In

Black Men/White Men: A Gay Anthology

, edited by

Smith

Michael J.

,

30

.

San Francisco

:

Gay Sunshine Press

,

1983

.

Johnson

,

E. Patrick

. “

Can the Queen Speak?

”

Unpublished poem

,

1998

.

Johnson

,

E. Patrick

. “

Feeling the Spirit in the Dark: Expanding Notions of the Sacred in the African American Gay Community

.”

Callaloo

21

, no.

2

(

1998

):

399

–

416

.

Johnson

,

E. Patrick

. “

‘Quare’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother

.”

Text and Performance Quarterly

21

, no.

1

(

2001

):

1

–

25

.

King

,

Alveda

. “

King Addresses Racism, Homosexuality

.”

Daily Tarheel

,

February

19

,

1998

,

1

.

Madhubuti

,

Haki R.

[

Lee

Don L.

]. “

Don’t Cry, Scream

.” In

Don’t Cry, Scream

,

27

–

31

.

Detroit

:

Broadside Press

,

1969

.

Mapplethorpe

,

Robert

. “

Man in Polyester Suit

.”

Photo. The Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe

,

1980

.

Mercer

,

Kobena

.

Welcome to the Jungle

.

New York

:

Routledge

,

1994

.

Spillers

,

Hortense

. “

Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book

.”

Diacritics

17

, no.

2

(

1987

):

65

–

81

.

Staples

,

Brent

.

Parallel Time

.

New York

:

Pantheon

,

1994

.