Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword: ‘‘Home’’ Is a Four-Letter Word ix
5. Introduction: Queering Black Studies/‘‘Quaring’’ Queer Studies 1
6. I. DISCIPLINARY TENSIONS: BLACK STUDIES/QUEER STUDIES
7. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? ≤ 21
8. Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity 52
9. Straight Black Studies: On African American Studies, James Baldwin, and Black Queer Studies 68
10. Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora 90
11. The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Experience, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge 106
12. ‘‘Quare’’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother 124
13. II. REPRESENTING THE ‘‘RACE’’: BLACKNESS, QUEERS, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY
14. Beyond the Closet as Raceless Paradigm 161
15. Privilege 190
16. ‘‘Joining the Lesbians’’: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility 213
17. Why Are Gay Ghettoes White? 228
18. III. HOW TO TEACH THE UNSPEAKABLE: RACE, QUEER STUDIES, AND PEDAGOGY
19. Embracing the Teachable Moment: The Black Gay Body in the Classroom as Embodied Text 249
20. Are We Family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness 266
21. On Being a Witness: Passion, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of James Baldwin 276
22. IV. BLACK QUEER FICTION: WHO IS ‘‘READING’’ US?
23. But Some of Us Are Brave Lesbians: The Absence of Black Lesbian Fiction 289
24. James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room: Expatriation, ‘‘Racial Drag,’’ and Homosexual Panic 298
25. Robert O’Hara’s Insurrection: ‘‘Que(e)rying History’’ 323
26. Bibliography 349
27. Contributors 371
28. Index 375