Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
8 best books like Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Siobhan B. Somerville): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex, The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
| Author | Jemar Tisby |
| ISBN | 0310597269 |
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
| Author | Gayatri Gopinath |
| ISBN | 0822335131 |
By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity,...
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
| Author | J. Jack Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0814735851 |
In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. He presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
| Author | Roderick A. Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0816641293 |
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture--sexual difference--can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses...
Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex
| Author | Marita Golden |
| ISBN | 1400077362 |
“Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.”
In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking...
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir
| Author | Jennifer Baszile |
| ISBN | 1416543279 |
"A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s."At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white classmate, Jennifer Baszile was humiliated to hear her classmate...
