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Blacktino Queer Performance by E. Patrick Johnson
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.73Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art... -
Blacktino Queer Performance by E. Patrick Johnson 9780822360506
RRP: $168.99Booksplease Price: $137.84Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art... -
Sweet Tea: A Play by E. Patrick Johnson 9780810142404
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.71This book is the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson's Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of black studies, queer studies, and Southern oral... -
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology by E. Patrick Johnson
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this... -
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American... -
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson 9780822331544
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $94.80Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American... -
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson 9781469641102
Booksplease Price: $57.48Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.33The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders... -
solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, and essays by E. Patrick Johnson 9780810129474
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68The collection solo/black/woman features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance artists from the past three decades. The scripts are accompanied by interviews and... -
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women by E. Patrick Johnson 9781478005902
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $85.73E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that he has been chosen to collect and share the stories of her... -
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson 9780822331544 [USED COPY]
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $39.93Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American... -
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson 9780822362425
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.66The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders... -
Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis by Dwight Conquergood 9780472071951
Booksplease Price: $111.49The 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... -
Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis by Dwight Conquergood 9780472051953
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $39.05The 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... -
Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture by Stefanie K. Dunning
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these "texts,"... -
Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance by Nicole Hodges Persley
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.66Sampling and Remixing Blackness is a timely and accessible book that examines the social ramifications of cultural borrowing and personal adaptation of Hip-hop culture by non-Black and non-African... -
Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class by Lisa B. Thompson 9780252034268
Booksplease Price: $135.72In this book, Lisa B. Thompson explores the representation of black middle-class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, drama, film, and popular culture, showing... -
Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class by Lisa B. Thompson 9780252078903
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.95In this book, Lisa B. Thompson explores the representation of black middle-class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, drama, film, and popular culture, showing... -
Bigger: A Literary Life Trudier Harris 9780300269321
Booksplease Price: $26.11A biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel... -
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard 9780814794623
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.31Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American... -
Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture Isaiah Matthew Wooden 9780810148222
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $28.95Showing how twenty-first-century Black theater and media arts challenge dominant conceptualizations of time Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture examines works by... -
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital by Adrienne D. Davis
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays... -
Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic by David A. Gerstner 9780252035906
Booksplease Price: $143.64Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and filmmaker Marlon Riggs--and the unique ways they turned... -
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital by Adrienne D. Davis 9780252084485
Booksplease Price: $27.94A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays... -
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation by Julius B Fleming Jr
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.272024 College Language Association Book Award Winner 2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change) Honorable Mention, Association for the Study of the Arts of... -
Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism by Scott Herring
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural... -
Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic by David A. Gerstner
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.95Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and filmmaker Marlon Riggs--and the unique ways they turned... -
African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity by Sharrell D. Luckett 9781684481521
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $36.35Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monae, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the... -
Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Xavier Livermon 9781478005797
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic... -
The Color Pynk by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 9781477326442
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.522023 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association... -
The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $76.032023 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association... -
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Thiefing Sugar, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the... -
Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues: Three Plays by Lisa Thompson 9780810142275
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29This book features new plays by Lisa B. Thompson, author of Single Black Female. In these three plays, the black feminist playwright and scholar thoughtfully explores themes such as the black family,... -
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller 9780822346036
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $24.50Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New... -
Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt Brim 9781478006824
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $85.73In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also... -
Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance by Stephanie Leigh Batiste
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.36In Darkening Mirrors, Stephanie Leigh Batiste examines how African Americans participated in U.S. cultural imperialism in Depression-era stage and screen performances. A population treated as... -
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller 9780822345855
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $96.20Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New... -
Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt Brim
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also... -
Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation by Lynn Sally 9781978828087
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.95The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful... -
Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation by Lynn Sally 9781978828094
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $52.19The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful...