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No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of black queer studies scholars, activists, and community leaders who build on the foundational work of black queer…
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E. Patrick Johnson
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the…
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Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, this title collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in…
Examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within and outside African American culture. This title develops from the contention that…
In this engaging and moving book, E. Patrick Johnson combines magical realism, poetry, and performative writing to bear witness to the real-life stories of black southern queer women in ways…
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Lisa Thompson
Features new plays by Lisa B. Thompson, author of Single Black Female. In these three plays, the black feminist playwright and scholar thoughtfully explores themes such as the black family…
Dwight Conquergood
Gathers the essential essays of Dwight Conquergood, performance studies scholar, ethnographer, and activist
A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies
Presents the text of the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson’s Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of…
The publication also includes a DVD of video samples for each of the performances documented, discussed, and analyzed within –Introduction.
Containing nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists-each accompanied by an interview and essay, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad.
Vincent Woodard
Takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and…
This collection of essays was assembled to honor the memory of the late, eminent Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent scholars from the United States…
William Patrick Burrell
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This edited volume argues that journalists and other political communicators have allowed antidemocratic movements in the United States and elsewhere to metastasize within the body politic. It not only seeks…
Walter E. Block
Free Enterprise Environmentalism argues that laissez capitalism can address climate change more effectively than socialism and government regulation.
