... African American drama visuality Black male sexuality Blues for Mister Charlie ...

... the expectations associated generally with race and gender, and specifically about Black male sexuality. For Baldwin, the lesson of Delaney’s seeing was that visual acuity was connected to a perceptual, cognitive, and synesthetic acuity that for each artist was linked intrinsically to Black sight...

... and stereotypes about the expectations associated generally with race and gender, and specifically about Black male sexuality. For Baldwin, the lesson of Delaney’s seeing was that visual acuity was connected to a perceptual, cognitive, and synesthetic acuity that for each artist was linked intrinsically to Black...

... This chapter features D. Soyini Madison’s interview with Cuban Hustle creator Cedric Brown. Madison and Brown discuss the political implications of the play’s depictions of black gay male sexuality and U.S.-Cuban relations. Brown ultimately asserts that the play is a metaphor...

... the interrelation of black queer and “normative sexualities,” while transforming dominant notions of black female sexuality and gender. Gladys Bentley black respectability BDSM sissy play subversive masculinity black femininity ...

... transmission are undermined because they fail to encompass black gay male sexual pleasure and desire. Arguing for a move beyond a reductive causal relationship between sexual behavior and contagion that buttresses an always already pathologized and surveilled black queer sexuality, Bailey proposes a black...

... This monographic study examines the oeuvre of Nigerian-British photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1956–89) in light of his posthumous Communion series. Where the artist’s choice of the black male nude as his primary subject was narrowly interpreted in terms of identity, close reading of Fani...

.... Madison and Brown discuss the political implications of the play’s depictions of black gay male sexuality and U.S.-Cuban relations. Brown ultimately asserts that the play is a metaphor for the relationship between the United States and Cuba. Cuban Hustle black gay men U.S.-Cuban relations ...

.... Brody then analyzes selected scenes from Strange Fruit to argue that Johnson employs performance studies sensibilities to destabilize essentialist notions of black queer male identity. black queer art black queer studies performance studies In this chapter, Bernadette Marie Calafell...

... Chapter 4 examines cases of alleged interracial rape in the interwar period. In the 1920s, an official government commission was appointed to investigate the problem of “Black Peril,” a term used across colonial spaces to refer to sexual assaults allegedly committed by Black or brown men...

... are exclusively of black men, often with large or erect genitalia. Despite the exhibitions’ staid institutional frames and their reliance on external (often corporate) funding, the problematic aspects of the work’s racial and sexual politics cannot be willed away by containment within the walls of the museum...

... of differences between America (white hats and black hats) and England (shades of grey); her love for the novelist Christina Stead, whom she considers one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century; her analysis of the difference between French socialism (logical, Lenin) and English (dreamy, Romantic...

... the archives of sexual health took shape. Hierarchies of color, class, and gender structured these workers’ knowledge-making practices such that the same-gender-desiring subjects most associated with HIV/AIDS were poor and working-class Black men. HIV/AIDS health workers surveillance care poor Black...

... of the black male nude as his primary subject was narrowly interpreted in terms of identity, close reading of Fani-Kayode’s self-description as black gay artist reworking tropes from modernist primitivism and “ancestralism” in black diaspora art reveals that his primary concern lay instead with the self...

... and feel. Her composition is a recombinant admixture of the transparently decipherable and the plural, the rhizomatic, the indeterminate. The complex and creatively enabling corporeality addressed in both text and music is materially sounded as black and maternal. For black women, motherhood is a strategic...

... With a focus on the Gold Coast in Chicago, this chapter looks at leather bars as sites of invention. Leather bars attracted men who sought to radically redefine gay male sexuality, to reclaim their masculinity, and to constitute a tribe. These bars emerged as one of the first truly distinct...

...Lineages of Healing This chapter explores how Black witches engage the spiritual realm to create their desired lives. Many Black witches practice African-heritage religions like Haitian Voodoo, Yoruba Ifá, or African American Hoodoo, which shape their understanding of manifestation. However...

.... This extract, from the picaresque diary of an anonymous silver trader, vividly describes a journey with a mule train from the highlands to the coast, from La Paz to Lima. It depicts the vicissitudes of life on the road, such as fording rising rivers in the rainy season, the illness and death of a young black...