Foreword / Cathy J. Cohen  xi

Acknowledgments  xv

Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson  1

1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow / Jafari S. Allen  27

2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead: Spectacular Absence and Postracialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory / Alison Reed  48

3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans*Analytic / Kai M. Green  65

4. Gender Trouble in Triton / C. Riley Snorton  83

5. Reggaetón's Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera  95

6. Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater / Lyndon K. Gill  113

7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographers of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley  131

8. Toward a Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil / Tanya Saunders  147

9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and Heteroperpetually Ever After / La Marr Jurelle Bruce  166

10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability / Kortney Ziegler  196

11. Let's Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain / Jennifer Declue  216

12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex / Marlon M. Bailey  239

13. Black Data / Shaka McGlotten  262

14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism / Zachary Blair  287

15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot / Kwama Holmes  304

16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness / Treva Ellison  323

17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black / Amber Jamilla Musser  346

18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness / Kaila Adia Story  362

19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive / Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace  380

Bibliography  395

Contributors  409

Index  415

Jafari S. Allen

Marlon Bailey

Zachary Blair

La Marr Jurelle Bruce

Cathy J. Cohen

Jennifer DeClue

Treva Ellison

Lyndon K. Gill

Kai Green

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Kwame Holmes

Shaka McGlotten

Amber Jamilla Musser

Alison Reed

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Tanya Saunders

Snorton, C. Riley

Kaila Story

Omise′eke Natasha Tinsley

Julia Roxanne Wallace

Kortney Ziegler

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