Embracing the Teachable Moment: The Black Gay Body in the Classroom as Embodied Text

Abstract

This is a collection of 16 essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies. Punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens: the radical potential of queer politics? / Cathy J. Cohen -- Race-ing homonormativity: citizenship, sociology, and gay identity / Roderick A. Ferguson -- Straight Black studies: on African American studies, James Baldwin, and Black queer studies / Dwight A. McBride -- Outside in Black studies: reading from a queer place in the diaspora / Rinaldo Walcott -- The evidence of felt intuition: minority experience, everyday life, and critical speculative knowledge / Phillip Brian Harper -- "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother / E. Patrick Johnson -- Beyond the closet as raceless paradigm / Marlon B. Ross -- Privilege / Devon W. Carbado -- "Joining the lesbians": cinematic regimes of Black lesbian visibility / Kara Keeling -- Why are gay ghettoes White? / Charles I. Nero -- Embracing the teachable moment: the Black gay body in the classroom as embodied text / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Are we family? pedagogy and the race for queerness / Keith Clark -- On being a witness: passion, pedagogy, and the legacy of James Baldwin / Maurice O. Wallace -- But some of us are brave lesbians: the absence of Black lesbian fiction / Jewelle Gomez -- James Baldwin's Giovanni's room: expatriation, "racial drag," and homosexual panic / Mae G. Henderson -- Robert O'Hara's Insurrection: "que(e)rying history" / Faedra Chatard Carpenter.