There's a disco ball between us : a theory of black gay life / Jafari Allen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.Description: 415 pISBN:
  • 9781478013662
  • 9781478014591
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: There's a disco ball between usDDC classification:
  • 306.76/608996 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.96 .A454 2021
Other classification:
  • SOC056000 | SOC002010
Contents:
There's a Disco Ball between Us -- A Stitch in Space Time: The Long 1980s -- The Anthological Generation -- "What It Is I Think They Were Doing, Anyhow" -- Masc Black Gay Man 4 Mask Black Gay Man? -- Disco -- Black Nations Queer Nations? -- Black/Queerpolis -- Bonds and Disciplines: Black/Queer/Diaspora -- Archiving the Anthological at the Current Conjuncture -- Interlude -- Come -- "Black/Queer Mess" as Methodological Case Study -- Unfinished Work -- Lush Life (in Exile).
Summary: "In There's A Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls "Black gay habits of mind." In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, London, and Paris to Toronto, Miami, and Trinidad and Tobago. In these locations and archives, Allen traces the genealogies of Black gay politics and cultures in the visual art, poetry, film, Black feminist theory, historiography, and activism of thinkers and artists such as Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Essex Hemphill, Colin Robinson, Marlon Riggs, Pat Parker, and Joseph Beam. Throughout, Allen renarrates Black queer history while cultivating a Black gay method of thinking and writing. In so doing, he speaks to the urgent contemporary struggles for social justice while calling on Black studies to pursue scholarship, art, and policy derived from the lived experience and fantasies of Black people throughout the world"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

There's a Disco Ball between Us -- A Stitch in Space Time: The Long 1980s -- The Anthological Generation -- "What It Is I Think They Were Doing, Anyhow" -- Masc Black Gay Man 4 Mask Black Gay Man? -- Disco -- Black Nations Queer Nations? -- Black/Queerpolis -- Bonds and Disciplines: Black/Queer/Diaspora -- Archiving the Anthological at the Current Conjuncture -- Interlude -- Come -- "Black/Queer Mess" as Methodological Case Study -- Unfinished Work -- Lush Life (in Exile).

"In There's A Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls "Black gay habits of mind." In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, London, and Paris to Toronto, Miami, and Trinidad and Tobago. In these locations and archives, Allen traces the genealogies of Black gay politics and cultures in the visual art, poetry, film, Black feminist theory, historiography, and activism of thinkers and artists such as Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Essex Hemphill, Colin Robinson, Marlon Riggs, Pat Parker, and Joseph Beam. Throughout, Allen renarrates Black queer history while cultivating a Black gay method of thinking and writing. In so doing, he speaks to the urgent contemporary struggles for social justice while calling on Black studies to pursue scholarship, art, and policy derived from the lived experience and fantasies of Black people throughout the world"--

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