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Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as ""backward"" or ""repressive"" and offers a window into the ways black gay men negotiate their identities, build community, maintain friendship networks, and find sexual and life partners--often in spaces and activities that appear to be antigay. Ultimately, Sweet Tea validates the lives of these black gay men and reinforces the role of storytelling in both Afr

African American gay men --- Gay men, African American --- Gay men --- Social conditions. --- Southern States --- Stonewall Honor.

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A consideration of the performance of Blackness and race in general, in relation to sexuality and critiques of authenticity.

African Americans --- African Americans in popular culture. --- Authenticity (Philosophy) --- Performing arts --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Philosophy --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Popular culture --- African American intellectuals --- Negritude --- Race identity. --- Intellectual life. --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Ethnic identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question

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"The late Dwight Conquergood's research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised. Conquergood's research laid the groundwork for others to engage issues of ethics in ethnographic research, performance as a meaningful paradigm for ethnography, and case studies that demonstrated the dissolution of theory/practice binaries. Cultural Struggles is the first gathering of Conquergood's work in a single volume, tracing the evolution of one scholar's thinking across a career of scholarship, teaching, and activism, and also the first collection of its kind to bring together theory, method, and complete case studies. The collection begins with an illuminating introduction by E. Patrick Johnson and ends with commentary by other scholars (Micaela di Leonardo, Judith Hamera, Shannon Jackson, D. Soyini Madison, Lisa Merrill, Della Pollock, and Joseph Roach), engaging aspects of Conquergood's work and providing insight into how that work has withstood the test of time, as scholars still draw on his research to inform their current interests and methods"--

Theatrical science --- Ethnology --- Performing arts --- Philosophy --- Social aspects

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"The tension between the popular embrace of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity prompts the contributors to Long Term to explore queer commitments as they are more broadly conceived. The essays contained here de-familiarize the idea of commitment and extend the category of significant others to include animals, possessions, institutions and disciplines. Revitalizing the concerns of queer theory beyond the commitment to anti-normativity, these essays contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship in queer temporality studies, disability studies, autotheory, and the emergent sub-field of age studies. Long Term includes an introduction on notions of the long term and essays that specifically address a number of topics-the commitment to palliative care; long-term attachment and loss; long-term pharmaceutical use; the commitment to pets; fear of commitment and institutionalization; long-term debt and financialization; the racial dimensions of long-term incarceration and voluntarism; queer kinship and racialized reproductive technologies; serial commitment; and the commitment to friendship"--

Commitment (Psychology). --- Engagement. --- Homosexuels --- Interpersonal relations. --- Perception du temps --- Qualité des relations humaines. --- Queer theory. --- Relationship quality. --- Same-sex marriage. --- Théorie queer. --- Time perception --- Mariage. --- Aspect social. --- Social aspects.

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Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. 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 further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smith’s slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies. --- HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies). --- American literature --- African American men in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Male homosexuality --- Consumption (Economics) --- Cannibalism --- Starvation --- Plantation life --- African American men --- Slaves --- Homosexuality, Male --- Homosexuality --- Men --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Afro-American men in literature --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Afro-American men --- Men, African American --- Fasting --- Hunger --- Malnutrition --- Anthropophagy --- Ethnology --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Sexual behavior --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Southern States