... In this chapter, Lisa B. Thompson analyzes Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.’s play Dancin’ the Down Low . She posits that the play queers traditional notions of black masculinity, paying particular attention to the various functions of the play’s dancing metaphor. In the end, Thompson applauds the play’s...

... In this chapter, John Keene interviews Dancin’ the Down Low creator Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. McCune discusses his intellectual and artistic trajectory and asserts that his performance work is a form of activism. He contends, for example, that DL men being blamed for the rise of new cases of HIV...

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...Part V In this chapter, Lisa B. Thompson analyzes Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.’s play Dancin’ the Down Low . She posits that the play queers traditional notions of black masculinity, paying particular attention to the various functions of the play’s dancing metaphor. In the end, Thompson applauds...

... Martin, who framed it both as a figure for Black heroic leadership and, conversely, as an index of geologies and ecologies suggesting genres of the human other than possessive individualism. The chapter also considers James McCune Smith's geological theories of race and Black worldmaking, which deftly...

... This chapter examines Frederick Douglass embodying “ART” and “FACTS.” Abolitionist James McCune Smith considers whether Douglass receives his intellect from his black mother, Harriet Bailey, or unknown white father. Bailey is construed as “the only one of all the slaves and colored people...