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1	“Freakish Man”: sexual blues, sacred beliefs, and the transformation of Black queer identity, 1870-1957. Sivels, Xavier E. 10 May 2024 (has links) (PDF) “‘Freakish Man’: sexual blues, sacred beliefs, and the transformation of Black queer identity, 1870-1959” investigates how queer Black men expressed their gender and sexual identities. It follows how, from the days of Reconstruction to the modern civil rights movement, queer Black men used various aspects of Black culture—particularly the blues, working-class social culture, and charismatic religion—to form identities that departed from dominant Black and white norms. The “freakish man” emerged as queer Black men cultivated legible, subversive gender and sexual identities in sacred and secular spaces of working-class Black culture that prioritized masculine heterosexuality. Though queer Black men were briefly successful in using their status as taboo but enticing social figures to enter the center of Black culture, they were gradually marginalized by the Black community as it moved towards inclusion into mainstream American society.
2	Ima Read: Reading the Black Church through the Performative Work of Black Same Gender Loving Males January 2013 (has links) abstract: The purpose of my dissertation project is to understand how Same-Gender Loving (SGL) Black Christian men negotiate their sexuality and spirituality in spaces that are not always accepting of SGL people, by examining on how Black SGL men perform their sexual identities within hegemonic institutions that often deny their existence or outwardly seek to exclude them from their communities. I have identified three scripts that Black SGL men often follow within Black religious settings. The first script that SGL people often follow in the church is that of deliverance-- confessing their same-gender desires and maintaining that they have been delivered from those desires The second is "don't ask don't tell" performed by men who many believe and suspect of being SGL; so long as they do not publicly affirm these beliefs they are able to hold a variety of positions in their religious communities.. The last script involves accepting one's same-gender desires and also affirming one's Christian beliefs, proclaiming that the two are not at odds with one another. I examine how these scripts and/or others are performed by and on the bodies of Black SGL males in two distinct sites. The first is the career and music of former gospel star Anthony Charles Williams II (Tonex / B. Slade), who has utilized the three scripts at various times in his career. The next site is that of theatre, where I explore how these scripts have been employed in dramatic texts. By reading Christian Black SGL performance through its theological parameters, I aim to discern the avenues in which Black people in the United States are able to perform same-gender sexual identities in spaces that are constructed as "homophobic," and in so doing combat the narrative of hyper-homophobia in Black communities. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Theatre 2013 Theater African American studies Gender studies African American Theatre Black Queer Studies Black Studies B. Slade Same Gender Loving Sexuality and the Black Church
3	Spatial Articulations of Race, Desire, and Belonging in Western North Carolina Eaves, LaToya 01 July 2014 (has links) The sociocultural mythology of the South homogenizes it as a site of abjection. To counter the regionalist discourse, the dissertation intersects queer sexualities with gender and race and focuses on exploring identity and spatial formation among Black lesbian and queer women. The dissertation seeks to challenge the monolith of the South and place the region into multiple contexts and to map Black geographies through an intentional intersectional account of Black queer women. The dissertation utilizes qualitative research methods to ascertain understandings of lived experiences in the production of space. The dissertation argues that an idea of Progress has been indoctrinated as a synonym for the lgbtq civil rights movement and subsequently provides an analysis of progress discourses and queer sexualities and political campaigns of equality in the South. Analyses revealed different ways to situate progress utilizing the public contributions of three Black women interviewed for the dissertation. Moreover, the dissertation utilizes six Black queer and lesbian women to explain the multifarious nature of identities and their construction in place. Black queer and lesbian women produce spaces that deconstruct the normativity of stasis and physicality, and the dissertation explores the consequential realities of being a body in space. These consequences are particularly highlighted in the dissertation by discussions of the processes of racialization in the bounded and unbounded senses of space and place and the impacts of religious institutions, specifically Christianity. The dissertation concluded that no space is without complication. Other considerations should be made in the advancement of alleviating oppression deeply embedded in United States landscapes. Black women’s geographies offer epistemological and ontological renderings that enrich analyses of space, place, and landscape. The dissertation also concludes that Black women’s bodies represent sites for the production of geographic knowledge through narrating their spaces of material trajectories of interlocking, multiscalar lives. Black Geographies Geography U.S. South North Carolina Queer Studies Sexualities Black Women Black Lesbians Southern Studies Black Studies African American Lesbians Black Queer Studies Race Human Geography
4	Black Queer TV: Reparative Viewing and the Sociopolitical Questions of Our Now Spears, Tobias L. 11 May 2022 (has links) No description available. African American Studies American Studies Black Studies Economic Theory Gender Studies Black Queer Studies Television Studies Neoliberalism Queer Worldmaking Sexuality Gender Futurity The Prancing Elites Empire Pose Media Studies Cultural Studies
5	The Secular is Divine, and the Divine is Secular - Black People's Experiences with and amongst Nature as Spiritual Praxis, as Preserved by Black Women Malik I Raymond (13171995) 29 July 2022 (has links) <p>This work looks at the intersections of nature, race, and spirituality in Black communities primarily situated in the United States from the early 20th century to the present day. These communties stories are interpreted through the Black women that lived in them, and their stories denote that Black folks' relationship with and amongst nature could not be had without spiritual praxes in their day-to-day lives. </p> Music performance Environmental history Gender history Histories of race History of religion Feminist and queer theory Gender relations Black Black Women Black Communities Spirituality Nature Outdoors Pastoral Religion Literature Art Paintings Song Dance Music Geography US South Rural Urban Black Queer Studies Eco-spirituality Womanism Ecowomanism Black Feminist Studies Music Studies Sound Studies

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